The flaw I see with your counter-argument is the assertion that people must die for the pandemic to have long-term effects. I don't necessarily agree. Covid19

The flaw I see with your counter-argument is the assertion that people must die for the pandemic to have long-term effects. I don't necessarily agree. Covid19 does absolutely affect young people at high enough rates to cause a devastating labor shortage. They might survive, but if factories, militaries, and police forces suffer the temporary loss of 50% of their workers during the same six month period, that could be bad. Political groups could capitalize on the weakened state of the situation and permanently change society. We already have outbreaks at major food factories. These people may not be dying, but they aren't working and getting temporary workers is going to be difficult.