> Covid has created an atmosphere where certain questions are not allowed to be asked

I find that unacceptable so let's talk.

Long story short I think that the economy will pick up again once this all blows over and that whatever negative consequences there are from a lockdown are still better than hundreds of thousands of people dying.

One person dying is objectively worse than one person going bankrupt, this is ethics 101.

I realise now that I'm doing exactly what you were criticizing (lamenting deaths) but I'd really like to hear your counter argument.