It’s not purely the idea of X # of deaths. It’s the fact that the virus is easily transmitted to others and we can avoid people needlessly dying purely by wearing masks at the grocery store, the bank, other public spaces ect.

Cancer, for example obviously kills more people than Covid, but cancer isn’t spread by being around someone else with cancer.

So to go back to your question. Is Covid a big concern? Yes, it is because if we try to live life exactly the same as we did before COVID we will have a million or more people die for no good reason. People would go to places asymptotic, infect dad, or grandma and then those folks die.

Also, we are still not sure of the LONG TERM effects of COVID. While you might not die how does your body fair years from now?
Death also isn’t the only factor that is accounted for when you are infected with covid. Some people have lung damage for the rest of their life or other ailments. Some people experience long term heart or brain damage.

“ one review found about 40% of seriously ill Covid-19 patients in China experienced arrhythmias and 20% experienced other cardiac injuries. “

I’ll put it to you this way. I’m still inviting a few people to my house, I might go out to eat on a patio with my fiancé here and there, we traveled a bit. I don’t wear a mask outside unless there’s a huge group around me(went to Yellowstone recently and there was a shitload of people at Old Faithful), but I wear a mask at the grocery store and other indoor public places. I don’t want to

A) get the virus and infect other people(I’m not worried about personally dying I’m healthy)
B) have this affect the country for longer than another year.

In my opinion, if some folks in American would stop bitching about their “freedoms” for a couple of months and just wear their mask in public indoor spaces this shite would be over with pretty quick and we can move on to getting the economy back on track along with a bucket full of other problems.

Also all the folks talk about how their friend who is a doctor/nurse/janitor/ at the hospital said they bump the numbers but it’s always a friend of a friend or someone’s cousin lol. The numbers ain’t wrong, it’s just propaganda that infected some of our citizens that make them think there’s some sort of grand conspiracy.

This post was edited on 10/17/20 at 1:47 pm