Originally Posted by
LonghornDXB
The virus has brought out many peoples survival instincts. That, and with videos released showing horrors of Covid patients in ICU, and trucks carrying corpses, made people believe anyone can die with this virus. I have heard so many people posting "millions have/will die".
We have areas where it has killed more than 1% of the
total population. 1% of 330 million = 3.3 million. While the areas that have had the highest death toll was older it wasn't that much older. We also see it's several times as deadly when the healthcare system crashes--10 million deaths in the US is a high estimate but not insane.
The thing that was being pushed back in early March was to "treat every other person as a carrier of the virus". Considering that in many countries, 1 in 1000 or even 1 in 10,000 people have the virus, it does seem overkill, but it was erring on the side of caution
That in turn leads to a lot of deeply angry and stressed people who are literally considering every one else on this planet to be infected
If 1 in 1000 are contagious the risk of business as normal is very high.