• Comparison to Sweden suggests COVID lockdowns did not prevent any COVID deaths at all.

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• COVID dead have median life expectancy had they not contracted COVID of less than 1 year, average of about 4 years.

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• COVID policies may have averted 200,000 COVID deaths in U.S. But . . . that equals less than 1 day of life span extension per person. Has living this way for a year been worth it to you to add 1 day to your life?

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• Do happiness and quality of life matter? COVID policies may have saved 800,000 person-years of life in averted COVID deaths. But they have already caused increased major clinical depression that results in 30 times! — yes 30 times! – as many person-years of life lost in time spent with major clinical depression as person-years of life saved in averted COVID deaths.

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• Even if happiness and quality of life do not matter to you and all you care about is duration of life, COVID policies have probably caused loss of more than twice as many person-years of life in increased suicides as they are saving in averted COVID deaths.

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• COVID policies threw 127 people out of work for each 1 COVID death averted.

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• COVID policies have increased deaths from cancer and heart disease.

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• COVID policies have increased domestic abuse and child abuse.

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• COVID policies have caused lost or impaired education for 350 children and young people for each 1 COVID death averted. Should a society sacrifice the interests of all of its children and young people to prolong the lives of a portion of the oldest and sickest?

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• The trolley dilemma: Do we switch the train from track 1 to track 2?

  • Track 1: Allow COVID to run its course and kill 1 additional COVID person with 4 years of life remaining.

  • Track 2: Divert the train to save that 1 person from COVID death but kill other much younger people from suicide resulting in 2x the person-years of life lost, throw 316 others into major depression resulting in 30x the person-years of life lost, throw 127 people out of work, impair education for 350 children and young people by closing their schools, subject a few children and adults to a beating from their domestic abuser, and make 1,640 people at least a little lonelier and less happy.