Availability bias.
The infection fatality rate of someone in there 20's or even a teenager is basically a rounding error. The strong and healthy dying are the exception, not the rule.
The infection fatality rate of someone in there 20's or even a teenager is basically a rounding error. The strong and healthy dying are the exception, not the rule.
No one ever wants to be drafted, but sometimes an enemy larger than our personal preferences emerges.
We all live at this crossroads of time having, essentially, zero input into now. Now demands sacrifice. So it goes.
self-infect and self-quarantine, so you won't accidentally spread it to the immune repressed or grandma or whatever. Not only is this not "unconsciounable", I think the opposite. I have great respect for people who put themselves out of their way to protect other, less fortunate people.
Plenty of comments implying that we're "all going to get it", which may be pretty much true in some areas in the US and Europe. I'm still holding out hope that being in Australia we may get a handle on it (although we just saw a huge cluster in a meatpacking plant). It's interesting to think that we might be heading for a world where some countries have had 60% prevalence and others have had 0.6% prevalence - what does that do for travel, trade, migration, tourism - all that stuff?
Before you downvote me, think about all the reports of people with VERY low oxygen saturation that "shouldn't be" alert, talking, and feeling ok. That goes against everything we "know" as well, but it's very real for this disease.