So, roughly 340,000 new cases every day and roughly 230 deaths every day. Do the math.
This is just another thing that may or may not kill you. And the risk seems pretty low.
230 dead a day right now. Hospitalizations/deaths lag cases by 2-4 weeks, given a 30-day average cycle of infection to death. Figure 1-10% maybe? of the daily 340,000 cases are hospitalized, 1-10% of hospitalized to ICU daily, and 20% of ICU dead daily (Delta avg). With a variant that we can’t knock down as easily as we did Delta with monoclonals, does 1% hospitalized (or treated remotely from home) seem optimistic? (see my post above)
The problem that has arisen with the 2020 argument of “ Natural immunity has always been the solution,” is that these latest variants don’t necessarily convey immunity to anything. Delta doesn’t protect against BA.1, BA.1 can be caught more than once and BA.1 doesn’t prevent infection from BA.2.
Also to consider, a small percentage of recovered infected, even assyms or mild cases, will develop some sort of medical problem following recovery: psychiatric issues (brain fog/’roadrage’ type anger or abrupt mood swings, etc), circulatory, pulmonary, immune issues, etc. As the number of recovered increases, so does the number of individuals experiencing after-effects.
Here’s an article that discusses immune issues seen in Sweden following infection (presumably from Delta). Spoiler - these issues seem to abate after a year:
https://gizmodo.com/mild-covid-19-linked-to-increased-inflammation-in-cells-1848651100