What ridiculous take would that be Higgins ? Is it not true that the vast, VAST majority of people who contract this virus (a virus so lethal you need to test for it) recover unharmed and that the majority of people never knew they had it ? Or that roughly 40% of deaths occurred in long care facilities i.e. the very elderly ?
Oh what the hell. By your own stat above, SIXTY percent of deaths were not in long care. We are now far past the number of combat deaths we (the U.S.) suffered in World War II. I know a married couple who both had covid. He had the milder case that you must be thinking about. She had a month-long siege of the worst flu symptoms she'd ever undergone. I also object to your phrase 'recover unharmed', as even this early in our knowledge of covid, we know about many patients who recover but face (at this point) months of after-effects, some serious enough to compromise long term health. They include fatigue, constricted breath, joint pain, chest pain; they include damage to the heart muscle, which may develop into heart disease; scar tissue on the lungs' alveoli; and in the brain, covid can cause stroke. What other disease has hit us in the past century that has filled hospitals to the limit and subjected our health care workers to a grueling and seemingly endless work detail, that threatens them and their families? Bloody hell. This is a catastrophe that involves all of us, and what the health care professionals are asking us to do is so minor as to be objectionable only to extremely immature adults.
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