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That 1% depends on a wide variety of contexts. It isn’t 1% for everyone, 1/3% of those who didn’t die seem to have debilitating persistent problems, and even if everything is fine with you, you can pass it to someone who passes it to someone who dies from your unwillingness to act for the greater good. To do anything but protect yourself is fundamentally selfish.
It isn’t 1% for everyone True. If you're younger (really, under 60) and healthy it's much less than 1%. 1/3% of those who didn’t die seem to have debilitating persistent problems Unclear if you mean 1/3 of all infections, which is far too high, or 1 to 3 percent, which is possibly reasonable, although again it's going to be skewed towards older and unhealthy people. even if everything is fine with you, you can pass i…
Your statement seems to emphasize that the focus should be on the youth, who are also dying of this disease. But the careless nature of dismissing the fatality rate of those over 60 or with co-morbidities is really unbelievable. So my parents, who are otherwise healthy and I expect to live for DECADES more should die now so you can go out and see your friends? Or those who are young with diabetes that might otherwise have an entire full life? The level of selfishness of such a statement is just off the charts.
If you were to kill just ONE person and be caught you’d be in jail for many years, purposefully (murder) or by accident (manslaughter). Yet passing a disease that has brought the world to its knees around is somehow ok? When did those who get affected by your actions get to weight in and vote on this? Or do you feel you can just unilaterally decide that it’s fine for others to die _unnecessarily_? And for businesses to suffer because the disease keeps going and others DO care about their own safety and those around them?
Furthermore, the CDC just acknowledged it may be as high as 1/3 of those recovered with persistent issues [1]. Even if it were 1-3%, why is that ok for that 1-3%? 1% of the global population is approximately 80 million people. How many of these would have solved climate change, found a cure for covid, or otherwise positively impacted the planet? That’s worth not just saying indoors collectively for a short period to prevent? It keeps going because people DON’T do what’s in the best interest for all of society, or even their future self.
You’re basing your assumptions on an extremely short time span of data, but we know that many viruses can strike far later in life with devastating consequences, or a lifetime of flare ups. We simply don’t know, but Dr. Fauci has repeatedly warned people about such a possibility. How can you calculate such risks when they’re unknown?
Peanuts are something that can be easily regulated and limited to those who are allergic. They pose no global threat, and don’t hop between people. Those allergic can also carry epipens. There is no epipen for covid (yet?). Until then we have an unusually highly contagious virus that spreads from a very high percentage of asymptotic carriers.
Already in the US over 1/3 of Americans who died in WWII have died since March that largely wouldn’t have otherwise [2]. It’s July. Please reconsider your actions.
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6930e1.htm [2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm