You keep saying you understand that the cure can't be worse than the disease, but then go on to dwell only on the fatality numbers associated with the disease. Personally I think you only give lip service to those who have been, and will be devastated by the shut downs. All you really care about is dramatizing the death toll on one side of the equation. That sounds like politics to me. The same kind of politics being played out on a national level with the media.
If you really cared about all of those suffering through this, you would be a little more balanced in your arguments. Same goes for the media. Very apparent at this point, that with 30 million lost jobs in 2 months, and >100 million people in undeveloped countries slipping into poverty (which to many will be a death sentence), and so little being written about them, this is more about political agendas, than compassion.
I don't know the death rate from suicide or the depth of the damage to the society. In the US and places like Brazil and the UK, part of the problem is the monumental incompetence and horrible example set by the current administrations with the exception of the scientists. And they are ending up in quarantine due to the negligence and incompetence of their leaders.
But my main point should be: your issue doesn't matter and here is why. If you let loose the society, cases and deaths and disability from the disease will rise exponentially again. Intelligent people will withdraw into their own quarantine and stay home. The rest will play a Darwinian roulette game that they won't win. Pandemics are inexorable. They don't respond to wishfullness. They only respond to vaccines, effective medications, social distancing, mask wearing and voluminous testing with case tracing. Attempts to short circuit the process will get millions of people maimed and injured. And the young who are less affected, will bring the disease home to maim or kill their parents or anyone in the house who has an underlying impairment, including one they may not even be aware of. The experiment is being done, unfortunately. The results are not going to be pretty.