At the same time, economic problems affect everyone while it seems that covid-19 harm scales with age.
No easy solutions to be sure, but I have hope more data becomes available soon so we can implement more nuanced policies to achieve similar containment while preventing massive unemployment. Testing random samples of the general population would be a good first step.
In Italy, median age of people who have died of Corona is 83 for women and 79 for men [1]. Normal life expectancy is lower than that in the United States [2]. Lockdown measures will have severe impact on GDP, and GDP is correlated with life expectancy [3].
It can easily happen that by killing economy in order to save lives, we may actually be doing the opposite in the long term.
