Originally Posted by
etudiant
Thank you for restoring a bit of perspective.
If we did nothing, this virus would kill about 1-3% of the people, skewed towards the aged. That was routine 'business as usual' during the middle ages.
Pepys did pretty well during the Great Plague and surely he was not alone. So life continues, just a little different.
Agreed. But we are generations of humans who simply haven't had to deal with that level of external threat, so we're more than a little slow on the learning curve. That means lots of unnecessary death and harm, not to mention doing a very big number on our health workers.
We need to help each other to learn faster.