At the very least, you're going to be buying people months, possibly years of life for millions of people by having a lockdown.
If we were to end the lockdown now there would be way more infections and deaths in the short-term then there would be otherwise.
Some deaths may happen anyway due to economic hardship, or social unrest, but the deaths from infections in the short-term are going to be greatly reduced, and even in the long term, the longer the lockdown can be sustained the fewer deaths from infection there are going to be.
In the meantime, the government really has to step up to the plate and come up with solutions to the economic problems, which (unlike the pandemic) are under human control.
If we were to end the lockdown now there would be way more infections and deaths in the short-term then there would be otherwise.
Some deaths may happen anyway due to economic hardship, or social unrest, but the deaths from infections in the short-term are going to be greatly reduced, and even in the long term, the longer the lockdown can be sustained the fewer deaths from infection there are going to be.
In the meantime, the government really has to step up to the plate and come up with solutions to the economic problems, which (unlike the pandemic) are under human control.