It's all about optics. People die each and every day from a lot fo things. Old age, the fue, traffic accidents, cancer, etc. Here we are focused on one single cause while completely neglecting anything else. While strict quarantines may (temporarily) extend the lifespan of some potential victims, it oftentimes will shorten the lifespan of others -- mostly cancer patients -- that are forced to postpone treatment. Populists like Fernandez love to put maps and charts on (usually wrong and misleading) but reality is we won't know how many "excess deaths" there were for another year at least.
Just look at the excess deaths in France due to the heath wave in 2003. It killed more elderly people than Covid 19 so far.
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