Coronavirus: Why Everyone Was Wrong

&gt; Those young and healthy people who currently walk around with a mask on their faces would be better off wearing a helmet instead, because the risk of something falling on their head is greater than that of getting a serious case of Covid-19.<p>I&#x27;m healthy and young and I might not die from Covid. But if I catch it I will almost certainly kill my mother.

Less than 2% mortality for those under 65 years of age in developed countries. I think we should have only quarantined the elderly.

A few good points (like the PCR detecting only RNA which does not equate to live virus) in a sea of &quot;interesting&quot; spin about the current data.<p>I really don&#x27;t understand why it&#x27;s &quot;us vs them&quot; in either camp (&quot;doom and gloom&quot; and &quot;skeptics&quot;). This makes things worse, since both camps tend to quote only evidence which support their respective claim (two examples: the Guardian saying that asymptomatic people spread more virus than the symptomatic ones, despite the study they quote saying that it can&#x27;t be said, because they did not check for live virus; and some web page called &quot;Swiss policy research&quot; which quotes only the parts of the studies which conform to the &quot;skeptical&quot; narrative).

I find it discouraging that exceptionally little is said about the outcomes for those who survive a bad case. IMNSHO, the big scare isn’t death, it’s being out of breath for the rest of a considerably shorter life, or being tied to a dialysis machine, or being perpetually foggy brained and easy to anger, etc.<p>The long-term damage to the country will be from damage to survivors, not from deaths.

It&#x27;s funny in a sad way to read an article like this one now a month later when it has become very clear that the virus comes back with vengeance in places that have lifted restrictions summer or no summer.<p>Also, the semantics of whether it can be called novel or not doesn&#x27;t matter one iota when the virus-caused pneumonia overwhelms medical systems in mere weaks if left to roam unchecked.

In the middle of a pandemic he suddenly realizes why everyone was wrong and now he is right. I totally believe him ... not. The long term effects of the virus are still unknown, if infected have long term immunity is unknown.

It&#x27;s hard to get past this being another wrong medium article that doesn&#x27;t match reality. Why does covid19 attract so many quacks who cant help but argue that it&#x27;s no problem really, go on about your lives (with 130k dead in the us, 600k dead in the world). It&#x27;s actually a problem. It hasn&#x27;t gone away somehow, even with massive amounts of magical thinking for the past 6 months.<p>Edit: we&#x27;re actually a week away from reaching 600k, per <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;#countries" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;#countries</a>. Will it take 200k dead in the us before we can stop arguing it&#x27;s no big deal? A million in the world?