One thing that you and others arguing in the same way seem to neglect is that there is a huge economical cost to a significant fraction of your society dying. This is not an either or situation. I want to see your economic models that the economy would have been fine with 0.5-1% of the population dying within a short period (actually everywhere the health system got overloaded the rate was significantly higher). Let's not even talk about the loss in confidence in the government because they failed to react.