streak wrote:
Everyone dies of something. Literally everyone. The average age of 'death from Covid' is at or above the average life expectancy. Unless you're very old, you need not worry about it. And if you are very old, you probably recognize that you will in fact one day die of something. That's part of life. I think that so many hysterical young people have for some reason just realized that they will one day die, and they're venting that anxiety like OP here. Here's the good news for you OP: when you die, it will most likely not be from Covid.
No one should die of a preventable death. COVID 19 deaths are preventable deaths. Preventable deaths are not part of life. Preventable deaths are the cost externality of a capitalist economic system. We are fed propaganda to lead us to believe that deaths due to pollution, unsafe workplaces, dangerous products, etc. are all just a part of life because it would be too expensive to have clean air and safety. But the obvious reality is that clean air, safety etc. are just things that reduce profits and businesses externalize the costs by making people sick. Same thing with COVID 19. The virus can be stopped. It would take about 6 weeks of very tight restrictions and then a very slow reopening with widespread testing/tracing. This can be done. Lots of countries have done it. We just choose not to because businesses would rather see people die than lose 6 weeks of activity.
And it is sick to dismiss the mortality rates of senior citizens. You may not be old, but you will be one day soon. A society that prioritizes 6 weeks of business activity and bars and restaurants over the health and safety of its senior citizens is a sick society. Everyone in the US has the right to live in a country where they are not made prisoners because they are over 65 or have a comorbidity.
Finally, focusing on fatalities ignores the fact that the virus sends tens of thousands to the hospital and ICUs, with many experience serious side effects (blood clots, heart attacks, hair loss, hearing loss, loss of sense of smell/taste, neurological issue, etc.) for an indefinite period of time. While mortality does strike mostly those over 65, severe cases requiring hospitalization does not.
https://www.ktvu.com/news/average-age-of-patients-hospitalized-with-covid-19-in-san-francisco-drops-to-41