I will say this one more time. Throwing the old people off the bus is fine if this is what you want to do, but realize that with the health care system crippled, you aren't getting any health care either for months.
As a young person, you might not be too worried about this virus, but over the next 6 months, you might have anything from gonorrhea that you can't get treated, a broken arm that will get no cast, or a serious accident which will leave you dying on the side of the road. Are you willing to take this risk? Access to healthcare isn't like a trade you can get out of when it goes against you for minimal loss. By saying that this is overblown and people need to get on with their lives, what you are saying is that you are ok with the healthcare system being overloaded because you are sure that in the next 6 months to 1 year you won't have any need for it nor will it in any way directly affect you.
Its not just a simple question of sacrificing the old people. The knock on effects of just letting this virus run rampant are serious.
US has 100k cases now and almost 2k deaths. If business was wide open, do you really think that when the case load hits 10 million or 20 million that the economy would still be great? At some point, you will see mass hysteria among healthy people. I bet that if nothing was done, within 2 months, you would have people themselves choosing to self quarantine without the government having to tell them to. The amount of paranoia would be unreal once you hit 1% or or 5% of the population catching this.
Look on the bright side...
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