There is no answer to that question especially if you look at it from an emotional point of view. Deaths of any kind suck, more so when it is someone close to you. The key to combating this crisis is doing our best to control it such that our health system can cope while getting on with our lives as best and normally as we can and looking after the vulnerable as best we can.
Even if we assume 100000 deaths in Australia really sucky from a human life standpoint if you step back and look at it logically that number isn't really that bad when you consider it in the perspective of 20+ million people as that is around 0.5%. That number is even lower then if you take into account the main demographic dying (many of whom would die in the next year or so), other lives that would have been lost because of the flu etc etc. Then there is the whole human cost of financial stress caused by this situation for many resulting in suicides, and people dying from increased domestic violence.
I again repeat no one wants deaths from this virus, but lets have some cold hard perspective with it.
