Here’s how a 15-year-old asked me: If the fatality rate is 1% (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30244-9/fulltext https://www.t

Here’s how a 15-year-old asked me: If the fatality rate is 1% (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30244-9/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...), how many jelly beans would you eat from a bowl of 100 jelly beans when one of them will kill you? What if you’re craving jelly beans? Or are indifferent? Or don’t like them? What if it’s 1/100 subway rides, or times you use an ATM, or days at the office? How many times would you do it with a 1/100 chance of a quick and miserable death, plus becoming a spreader until you have symptoms? Maybe you are personally at lower risk. Or maybe you are not. How sure are you? I will wait for the vaccine.