It was created by a Koch "economic policy think tank"[2], who regularly argues against climate change[3], the minimum wage, and social safety nets, and isn't focused on medical arguments, but rather economic well-being. It stretches credibility to suggest their primary interests are for the poor all of a sudden.

The argument is also predicated on there never being a working vaccine, and herd immunity being the primary mechanism of eventually ending the COVID-19 pandemic/lockdown[0].

> [0]Sunetra Gupta, an infectious disease epidemiologist, has been a critic of the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic lockdown strategy, arguing that the cost is too high for the poorest in society.

That's an economic argument, not a medical one.

Considering at least two vaccines are coming out of stage III trials[1] and may be widely available as early as summer 2021, I'd prefer to wait for that, rather than a scheme hatched by economically interested individuals who want to sacrifice a lot of people for essentially more wealth.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#Vaccine_candi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Institute_for_Economi...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Institute_for_Economi...