Current numbers [0] show 1 in 417 people in the U.S. have died of covid. These fatalities tend to occur to people who are older and/or have other health problem

Current numbers [0] show 1 in 417 people in the U.S. have died of covid. These fatalities tend to occur to people who are older and/or have other health problems [1]. Many people intuit that this is not the end of the world. Many may not be able to argue the case well, but they believe that the fear of covid is overblown. They don't believe that lockdowns and masks will make enough difference in the end, not for the pain incurred. Some are freaked out more by the vaccine but often this is subconscious reaction to being forced through all this trouble by a bunch of people whipped up into unreasonable fear by clickbait headlines and fanned by meddling or power hungry politicians. Quibbling over details doesn't change what they believe. I would defend their position by saying that the per capita mortality rate for covid is similar to the 1968 hong-kong flu [2], maybe less. That was not the end of the world, either. Many people who were alive in 1968 don't remember it. We live in a word of longer than ever life expectancy. We are better than ever at keeping vulnerable unhealthy people alive. What do you expect? These things have happened before, and will happen again, part of living in the real world. These people opposed to punishing young, and non-young, people who have a 1 in 10,000+ chance or less of dying, taking away years of their schooling, social life, and careers, because a bunch of people have a skewed perspective of risk. Whether or not you agree, this is what a lot of people think, and why. Supporting and expanding hospital facilities and targeted protection of vulnerable people like in nursing homes would have been my biggest concern. Some people have good reason to be afraid. Others do not. I don't blame anyone for wanting to protect themselves. We should support that, too. EDIT: minor edits for clarity [0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ [1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/health_policy/covid19-comorbidity-expanded-12092020-508.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/health_policy/covid19-comorbid... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu