Death is not the worst things in life, an unreasonably large fear of death is much worse. A death cowering in fear, or full of regret is pathetic.
Who do you think you are picking who dies like a tyrant doling favors? Do you not think I have elderly loved ones I worry about? Do you think I would enjoy getting COVID myself, or potentially orphaning my daughters? No! I just refuse to blow my kids mind with endless lock downs.
My obligation is to take COVID seriously, and do my utmost not to get sick myself. If I do, ill lock myself up in the basement for as long as it takes.
But with my obligations I also have rights, and Ill be damned if someone too scared to have ever pondered their own mortality will ruin life for me without protest.
China literally welded people in their homes. They probably lied about their numbers.
New Zeland, and Australia had few cases when they did lock down, and are islands.
Korea has a very disciplined population compared to the West.
Really you should be comparing the US to Europe. The EU didnt do much better, but was far more draconian. Or within the states.
But anyway, i never know if people are serious when they propose the China or Australian model. Those were brutal and Im glad to be voting for a constitutional amendment next week to limit the governor's lockdown authority.
I cant speak for the OP, but for those of us who have given life and death some thought, lockdowns are worse than death.