>>12819468The answer to your question is pic related.
>>12819476>>12819601>>12819734>>12819789You all need to educate yourselves. Look at the graph I drew. Blue is economic growth over time. Green is economic growth with a lock down; there's an immediate loss, but then it grows with the same slope. Red is what happens without lock down; no immediate loss but the slope of growth changes because there's less people. At some point in time (purple line) the worst of the possible futures for the economy is achieved by not locking down.
>b-but only old people would dieNot true. If hospitals get overwhelmed a lot of people die, not only old ones. Even then, old people actually contribute a lot to the economy.
>b-but they only charge their pensions, they don't create valueThey spend the money. "Creating value" is not a thing; it's just what happens when somebody (you) is paid less than what their work is worth. If they get gibs and they spend their gibs that's a great thing because it's not the government's money they're spending, but actually yours. It's a big part of the economy.
>b-but only fat and sick people dieIt doesn't matter that you don't like them. If they are either (a) working and getting paid less than it's worth, or (b) getting any sort of welfare money and spending it (thus supporting businesses that underpay their workforce and keeping the bubble growing) they're a positive force in the economy. Yes, it's monopoly money. No, the economy is not directly your economic well begin, just like the stock market is not directly the economy. TLDR: You're all ignorant of how the economy even works, and just parroting opinions you heard somewhere else.
