florida had 54,000 deaths, adjusted for population, that would be more than 64,000 deaths in australia. it's not crazy to say that there are 63,000 aussies with friends and families and lives and dreams, just like you and me, engaged in all sorts of social, and spiritual, and economic activity, folks who are alive today walking around who would not be if they lived in florida. who would be dead. and that's just one state. our country's lost nearly 700,000 people. yes, there are some tradeoffs at the extremes, between freedom and public health measures, and yes it is the job of policy makers to make those difficult calls and decide between those two extremes informed by the science, and it's also the case that for all the hysterical whining about tyranny, the biden administration has been, i think, balancing those comparatives pretty well.