Destroy much of what was attractive about urban life as we know it and lead to a real estate collapse of extraordinary proportions, turning even our few remaining showplace cities into crime-ridden reserves of ever more desperate people.
Push "Smart" monitoring of our lives, already intolerable for anyone still clinging to memories of freedom in the pre-September 11th world, to the point where most people will no longer understand what people used to know as privacy, intimacy or the simple dignity of being left alone.
The danger then to the under-24 population of being infected paralyzed or killed far outstripped in percentages and, obviously, severity anything COVID is doing to the same age group.
The best way to deal with it was to let it run its course while protecting the most vulnerable people in society and letting everyone else live their lives.
That suggesting world-class professional athletes in their 20s and 30s, or even their less talented and less fit high school and college counterparts, were running a risk of mortal consequences in even minimal numbers by playing in the midst of the COVID spread was, in light of known age-related numbers on the disease's lethality, at best ridiculous and, at worst, a very cynical fear-mongering ploy.
0.011% of the US population under 65 have died of COVID. 0.005% of the US population under 55 have died of COVID. 0.0009% of the US population under 35 have died of COVID. 0.0002% of the US population under 25 have died of COVID. 0.00008% of the US population under 15 have died of COVID. And as for the most "High risk" people?
0.23% of the US population over 65 have died of COVID. Though they've tried to sell it otherwise, this thing has very little to do with great-grandma's Spanish flu of 1918.
https://off-guardian.org/2020/08/22/are-you-ready-for-the-no-one-could-have-known-routine/
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