>healthy young people took more "life years" and quality of life already than COVID itself did.

Not even close.

> That's incredibly hard to quantify with data,

No, it's not.

>but the predicted lifespan for someone under 20 being another 50+ years means they lost a lot more during formative years and will probably impact them for their whole life.

So will *every time they get covid*

>Tragedy happens, but a lot of this tragedy was choice in handling the situation.

Yeah, and we should stop the continuing wave of tragedy *now* not later by ending covid.