The point is, without proper care, the mortality rate of this virus raises from 1% to 5%, give or take. And that's without taking into account the long term con

The point is, without proper care, the mortality rate of this virus raises from 1% to 5%, give or take. And that's without taking into account the long term consequences of the survivors (I've heard for instance that about 10% or so of the infected get a long, version of the disease, that render them unable to work for months). Now the probabilities are rather low because we make sure the virus doesn't spread too much (we lock everything down whenever it does). If we didn't however, we'd infect most of the population, hospitals would be overwhelmed, and we'd end up culling more than 3% of the world's population. Mostly elderly for sure, but still. Even if we stick to actual numbers, let me give you the example of France. I'm r where I live, and the crisis was… let's be prudent and say "not expertly managed". We have over 109K deaths now. With our population, that's about 1.7 deaths per thousand people. Most of us here know some people who watched a close one die. It is much.