C’mon we’re almost two years into this, how is it we’re still under this idea that it’s about individual risk, and hospitalization (or death) is the only meanin

C’mon we’re almost two years into this, how is it we’re still under this idea that it’s about individual risk, and hospitalization (or death) is the only meaningful risk factor? A pandemic is a population-level problem, risk is dependent on how everyone acts collectively. This includes mutation rate and resource limitations. If it keeps spreading, it keeps mutating (see: Delta). If hospitals are overflowing, risk goes up for everyone - whether or not they even have covid. Things that were treatable with a visit to an ER before are now life threatening due to resource constraints. And there’s tons of people with postviral covid complications that weren’t hospitalized. You can’t do apples to apples with things like ‘getting bitten by sharks’ or whatever things get dragged out in typical risk comparisons. That’s why this is hard.