On top of all that, viruses aren’t monolithic or uniform, just as species aren’t.
Just as some individuals and population groups within humanity have stronger immune systems than others, some individuals and population groups within viruses are deadlier than others, and coronavirus is no exception.
Weaker variants of the coronavirus will spread faster than stronger variants, because they’re more likely to go undetected, and contracting weaker variants, in whole or in part, immunizes you against stronger ones, so our collective susceptibility to coronavirus will in all likelihood only diminish with time, and the death rate decline.
I have no idea by how much, perhaps the death rate will be halved, from around 0.5 to around 0.25, but I can say that in all probably it’ll only decrease in time after more and more people get exposed to faster spreading, but weaker variants.
I read somewhere that 80% of 90+ year olds (the median death is 80) recover from coronavirus, and that’s just the ones on record, so it could be more like 96% of 90+ year olds, but even if it is just 80%, even 90+ year olds have a good chance of contracting weaker variants and getting immunized against stronger ones, let alone young people.
It’s sad that thanks to our irresponsible, fear mongering media, there’s millions of young people out there, kids, teenagers and young adults, thinking there’s a good chance they’ll contract coronavirus and die.
How much will all this stress shorten their life expectancy, everyone’s life expectancy?
Not only stress from fear of the virus itself, but the stress of losing your job, your career, your small business, your very way of life?
If government and the media were being honest with us, the benefits (assuming there are any) of medical martial law (because that’s what it is) would be openly weighed against the costs, discussed with the public, but they’re not, because at the very least, even if there is no sinister agenda to further enslave and exterminate the people, government and the media, doesn’t trust us enough to have an adult conversation with us, in a supposed democracy.
No our betters have decided what to do with our lives, liberty and economy for us, and our sole role is to unthinkingly obey and rat on our friends and neighbors who won’t.
To cancel, censor and deplatform all dissent.
To dox, fine and imprison all dissidents.
This is not democracy in action.
This is yet another example of 21st century post-modern authoritarianism on display, one of countless.
Young people have next to no chance of dying from this flu, and even middle aged and most old people have little chance of dying from it (like 1 in thousands, hundreds and dozens respectively), unless they’re already severely, chronically ill (particularly if it’s a respiratory illness or an illnesss that leaves you vulnerable to respiratory illnesses).
But if you just read the headlines, you’d never know that, only people who read often, read carefully, read between the lines, who can connect dots, fill in the blanks, look at the big picture, make inferences, put things into perspective, who’ve been around the block more than once or twice, know that this is being massively overhyped.
Government and the media ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Absolutely appalling behavior on their behalf.
Fake news.