I think the deaths are also going to cause millions of years lost life. Doing nothing would have cost 10’s if not 100’s of millions of years of lost life, so net win.
The median life expectancy in the US is 79 years.
The measures introduced to stop the disease kill the young and hence affect the loss of life far more.
Not in other countries. Fix your ridiculous social security system.
Also, the life expectancy in the US of an 82 year old woman is 9 years and 8 months and for men 8 years and 2 months. Half the deaths are from people younger than this, so on average total lost years per death is well over a decade.
Globally deaths are ~450k at a minimum, meaning lost years are well into the millions with the pandemic still in full swing.
PS: Calculating average life expectancy is tricky because it does not fall 1:1 with years lived.