That's just so fcking much own research at same time to be able to use some media reading critic, so many interviews with numbers which are taken to support some particular view etc... these people most have PhD:s done, they really know how to to chose numbers and facts which are on your side and ignore some other possibilities, so not really capable to follow these and same time do enough research to find things which do or don't support someones theory.
Mostly what can be trusted are these numbers what we get about infected new cases, test amounts, deaths, hospitalized etc... of course these have small mistakes but would trust quite well that most of European countries are specific as they can with these numbers, some North-Korea and some countries you might want to leave out if they don't really impress with their ability and willingness to provide up to date information or they don't test people or very minimum amount (that was Trumps idea to get numbers down as well...). These numbers are quite clear and not many is denying them, so we have some information, just understanding it WHY and using it HOW are missing parts which get better what more information is available.
People do gonna die, nobody deny that. Even in Finland around one person per day in average keep doing it at the moment (around 1000 without COVID but like nice man called Stalin said already once:
The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic) If any of my close person pass away, it don't make me any happier was it due to COVID or car accident, this one just at the moment is only one which matters and every each one need to be prevented what ever cost.
About costs, masks have been quite a lot spoken everywhere, all countries and places are different, like how easy it is to keep distances etc... Nobody haven't done that many researches about their actual help, where and how these would be most needed, here is one from Norwegian Institute of Public Health:
Some are too lazy to go through 45 pages so their outcome was simplified that if 200 00 people (without respiratory symptoms) wear facemasks CORRECTLY one (1) infection could be avoided. These have more psychological effect that people feel more safe, it can also be bad if people in their heads think that when i wear mask, i don't have to care about distances or anything (that's how human mind little bit work, you feel that makes you safe and you might easier fail to follow other advice about preventing spread viruses). Should have own more shares from these few companies who seel quite a lot of these atm with good price
(and some people are so cool that they like to drop these just to streets and everywhere to make waste with good portion of your breath in them).
edit: about Goaties shopping pictures above... dunno know what to say..... is anywhere there been near that TP or food is running out or is it again that buy all you can and throw 75% to bin?