So let's stop bothering to try and save people from cancer then ?
" Arghhh, they're going to die anyway. Why are we wasting all this money on medical research ? ".
While I agree there are many older people in aged care homes that are just existing, that doesn't mean that all people are in that situation.
There are lots of examples where otherwise reasonably fit, healthy people have died from Covid arguably before their time.
Where we do we draw the line with people becoming a burden on society ?
The current response to Covid has produced many learnings. Maybe when the next virus comes along we will rapidly act to protect the vulnerable rather than the half arsed approach we took this time ? With the benefit of hindsight we should've closed the country earlier, managed quarantine much better , should've started testing much earlier, made sure that hygiene protocols were being used, had a large storage of ppe locked away, had a short level 3 or 4 shutdown and removed casual employees from working at multiple aged care homes ? Then we probably would have had very few outbreaks and no deaths and at least the internal Australian economy would be ticking along.
But that is all based on learnings from what we have experienced in the last six months.
As to older people having poor quality of life near the end, we'll that's why we are exploring voluntary euthanasia laws to let people make their own choices.
