[fireman15]

Over half of people under 50 experience no symptoms from this virus. Another 30% have symptoms mild enough that they can be ignored. The vast majority of kids are not at any substantial risk... a more typical flu is more statistically dangerous to them. At a young playing in dirt, harassing stray animals and insects, picking their nose, and eating their boogars helps strengthen their immune system.

[dinodino]

One in five cases end up in the ICU. Yes, 75% of those will eventually recover, but in the meantime they’ve taken up massive amounts of O2 and possibly occupied ventilators, thus overtaxing our hospitals. I spoke with my sister early this morning on her way to the hospital (she is a physician at a western hospital I am not going to name)...she has a 31-year old male patient in ICU right now with ARDS who has tested positive for COVID-19. There are too many people on this board who are repeating, falsely, that this disease doesn’t affect those under 50—it manifestly does.