> Since it affects the older population more than the younger, you want to catch it as early as possible. Catching it next year is more likely to kill you than

> Since it affects the older population more than the younger, you want to catch it as early as possible. Catching it next year is more likely to kill you than catching it this year. That might be true if you assume that there will not be a vaccine AND that medicine will not advance in the near future. But we have already seen medicine get better at treating Covid. (For example, doctors have learned not to use ventilators so much and proning is used more often, from what I understand.) I would rather get Covid now than a few months ago both because the medicine has gotten better and because the hospitals in my area are less overwhelmed—despite the fact that I am a few months older now. Furthermore, if I do have to die from Covid, I'd rather live a little longer first! > retire the old and ask them to keep out of the way Plenty of high-risk folks are not of retirement age. And many who are older live with younger family members for various reasons. It is not feasible for all of the high-risk people to "keep out of the way." Who will take care of high-risk elderly and disabled people who need help with bathing and toileting? What should grandparents do who are the guardians of their grandchildren? It's obvious that you have not thought this through.