Mike4 wrote:If asymptomatic infection was allowed to become rife in under-40s who (understandably) by and large don't care personally if they catch it, my quality of life would have to take a massive dive. I would feel no option but to fiercely self-isolate in order to avoiding catching it from them all. This I would have to do in order to (hopefully) achieve my previously likely 24 year life expectancy from now.
Everyone has been forced to fiercely isolate as it is. Our family has associated with no-one for two months except two or three local families we illegally meet occasionally to prevent us and the kids going nuts. Our 17yo son is still forcibly separated from us. We've had no business income for two months, our staff have received no pay. Nice to see some older people enjoying their lockdown so much.
The terror of CV displayed above is completely out of proportion IMO. Very few people die of CV, even old people, and that rate will fall as vulnerable people have died and treatments improve. With a death rate of 1% there is less than a 1 in 100 chance of succumbing, so the expected drop in a person's life expectancy is only a month or two, three at the most. Far more people will succumb to heart disease or cancer so the wrong bogeyman is being feared here.
Maybe someone can explain why CV is so much more terrifying than a heart attack or ovarian cancer that they'd feel the urge to hide under the bed?
GS