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>>18975842
tl;dr yes possibly. Since they were going to die soon anyway. Think about keeping someone in terrible pain on the verge of alive on life support because you’re so selfish you just want to cling and hold onto that chance that they might, might, might just live. Imagine being a reverse Holden Caulfield obsessed with saving the lives of the already very elderly and sick — wanting to shut everything down, lash down at everyone, and freeze time in place just to save to these people. Think about that. Then think about the fact that even of 70+ year old people, it STILL has a 94.6% survival rate, and the 1.3 million deaths would be distributed across all ages and health conditions of society, but tending, of course, on average (literal average age of death from COVID-19 is 73), to be the already very old about 7 years away from death, as well as having on average about four underlying conditions.

Once again, millions of deaths from car crashes. Imagine banning cars, then saying, “Only the selfish are against it. Even if we save one single life...”

>There are 30 million Americans over 65 (closest I can get to 70 without putting in effort). 5% of 30 million is 1,500,000 people.

>Total US war deaths (in combat or not) is about 1.3 million. Worth it to you?