Small percentages of people suffer complications from many different types of illnesses. At a certain point, human beings simply have to live with a small chance of a bad outcome from ailments that are normally mild.
Sometimes people have strokes from sneezing.
See I can make generalizing statements about bullshit too.
[1]: https://annalsofintensivecare.springeropen.com/articles/10.1...
And what percentage of people that get covid are hospitalized? Let's estimate and say 3% of people that get covid end up hospitalized. 3-8% of 3% is, frankly, a small percentage of people.
You can make any percentage seem large and scary with the right framing (https://xkcd.com/1252/)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-hospit...
> More than one in 10 Covid patients died within five months of being discharged from hospital, while almost a third of those who survived the virus had to be readmitted, new research has warned.
> Papers released by the governments Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) also revealed half of patients in hospital with the virus suffered complications, with one in four struggling when they got back home.
> Younger patients under the age of 50 were more likely to suffer complications.
ICNARC gives us some age data: https://www.icnarc.org/Reporting