Yeah, I wanted to make much the same point. My grandma died in 2015, but I’ve talked about it with my family members and we’re all pretty certain she would have chosen to die of COVID rather than go into lockdown. In the last years of her life (especially after being widowed in 2008), she was very realistic about the fact that she didn’t have much longer to live, and her whole life revolved around her community — she lived alone, but she was an important community fixture in her small town, and had been for decades. Not socializing would have removed her only source of meaning, and there’s no way she would have thought that it was worth locking down to buy herself two additional years of life in isolation.
Yeah, I wanted to make much the same point. My grandma died in 2015, but I’ve talked about it with my family members and we’re all pretty certain she would have chosen to die of COVID rather than go into lockdown. In the last years of her life (especially after being widowed in 2008), she was very realistic about the fact that she didn’t have much longer to live, and her whole life revolved around her community — she lived alone, but she was an important community fixture in her small town, and had been for decades. Not socializing would have removed her only source of meaning, and there’s no way she would have thought that it was worth locking down to buy herself two additional years of life in isolation.