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Originally Posted by Pierre
One way of looking at it, it will be our kids that end up paying for this.
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It sounds logical until otherwise fit, young people also start dying because there wasn’t enough ICU capacity to deal with their road accident, middle aged people die of treatable cancers, and so on.
It’s absolutely correct, in earlier times an epidemic like this would just have killed a lot of people and that would have been that. But for quite a long time now we have developed the expectation that we attempt to treat people when they have a treatable illness. Even in those with underlying conditions, covid-19 is treatable and most sufferers recover.