Callousness is required to obtaining an accurate number and a true risk profile to the general public who are healthy. The only numbers I care about and have any real meaning are exactly how many who have died had zero risk profile in regard to health. Using that metric we would have to eliminate every single person in a nursing home. Numbers show that reflects nearly 50 percent of the deaths. Next up are those with serious preexisting conditions who are at risk of a varity of illnesses other than Covid which can kill them. They too must be eliminated from the total number to get an actaul assessment of risk to healthy people.
I don't know what number that is, but I'm sure those doing the counting know. Why isn't it being very publicly and consistently being told to us as the total death rate is? If we are to move forward with some plan of action then that number is extremely important as to how aggressively we quarantine people and businesses. The mortality rate for healthy changes drastically when you throw out all the rest who were at elevated risk to begin with.
First we were told millions would die, then it was several hundred thousand, now it's 132K over a 4 month stretch and far less than half of those were otherwise healthy people. Probably 20 to 30K at most were healthy and not in a high risk category.
What I'm saying and to the point of the thread, that number does not warrant a national shutdown. Never did. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt with their initial decision to do so because there were so many unknowns. Several months later and a hell of alot more real data, it is painfully obvious that a continuing shutdown is unnecessary and brings more risk than the virus itself.