Politician: “The shutdown and lockdown worked.  It was a tough nine months until a vaccine was made available but the models projected 60,000 COVID deaths and there were only 40,000 COVID deaths.  We saved 20,000 lives by being proactive.”

Citizen: “But in that same time hald the working age population declared bankruptcy, dicorces are sky high, 60,000 overdosed and nearly 100,000 people blew their brains out.  Your plan cost more lives than it saved.”

Politician: “Are you telling me during the lockdown almost 100,000 people died of gunshot wounds?”

Citizen: “Yes, the lockdown drove them mad.”

Politician: “We need to pass a whole bunch of new laws.  Next time we need to be sure that we confiscate all the guns before we lock everything down to save more lives.”