Objectively intelligent.

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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

There are also all of the people who will die of other things because the healthcare system cannot take care of them. The ICUs are usually full of people who are there for a variety of reasons. CV surgery patients, major trauma patients, some other infectious disease patients, patients in renal failure etc. And there are also the delays of elective surgeries and procedures which won't be as "elective" as time goes on and they're not taken care of.

There's also the possibility of the already weakened being taken out post-procedure. Imagine being a cardiologist doing a triple bypass only to have your patient die a week or two later from covid he caught in the hospital which ravaged him in a weakened state.