1. The harms of lockdown are unequally distributed. Economists have found that only 37% of jobs in the US can be performed wholly on-line, and high-paying jobs are overrepresented among that set. 
2. Declaring janitors, store clerks, meat packers, postal workers, and other blue-collar workers as "essential" workers in most states, regardless of whether they qualify as high COVID mortality risk, the lockdowns have failed to shield the vulnerable in these occupations.
3.The economic dislocation from the lockdowns has increased the number of households where young adults who have lost their jobs co-reside with vulnerable older parents which may increase the risk of COVID-related death.
4. In addition, school closures have contributed to shortages of nurses and other medical personnel who stay home to care for their children rather than work. Very clearly, exposing people to the medical and psychological harms from the lockdowns is ethically fraught.
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