"at the cost of millions of lives"

... That's a lie. Texas has 50k. Florida had 35k.

How many of those were really covid deaths, first off.

If it's the national average of 6%, I'm gonna call 5000 people for 52 million to get their lives back a fair trade. But let's go ahead and argue it's probably higher than 6% because they didn't pad their death stats for federal funding. If say it were probably 25-35k, based on how the flu trends in most years, plus some allowance.

Hell, let's give them the full 85k.
85k people with the average age of death at 86 is worth 52 million people getting their life back

Edit: second off, it's SUMMER. People have the lowest chance of spreading it and the best odds of beating it right now. Hiding people away till fall is completely counterintuitive(then again, I said that last year, too)

"at the cost of millions of lives"

... That's a lie. Texas has 50k. Florida had 35k.

How many of those were really covid deaths, first off.

If it's the national average of 6%, I'm gonna call 5000 people for 52 million to get their lives back a fair trade. But let's go ahead and argue it's probably higher than 6% because they didn't pad their death stats for federal funding. If say it were probably 25-35k, based on how the flu trends in most years, plus some allowance.

Hell, let's give them the full 85k.
85k people with the average age of death at 86 is worth 52 million people getting their life back