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Originally Posted by rcentros
In the United States, less than 800 people under the age of 50 have died from coronavirus. That comes out to about 2.5 people (under 50) per million. The people who are dying from Covid are those who are already unhealthy, old or frail (just like the flu). By all means, isolate those who are at risk, but does it really make sense to shut down the economy for 2.5 deaths per million (of those not at risk)?
How many people are dying from not getting needed "elective" surgery? What happens when the food supply chain fails? How many local businesses are going to fail? How are people going to pay their rent? Sometimes you have to compromise. By opening up our country herd immunity will develop faster. Once that's done we won't need the vaccine.
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Nothing to do with the point I was making. Which was that it is absolutely not entirely in your own control whether or not you get the virus.
Whether a certain number of deaths (even of old people!) is an acceptable risk is a totally different discussion, and one that is probably best in the P&R forum.