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That's an outlier.

Yes but it's still a significant risk, would you not say? The coronavirus outbreak itself could be described as an outlier event, should we discount it?

No, it's not a "significant risk". It's basically the flu to the young. The IFR for that age range in good health is basically in the ballpark of the flu, which is a rounding error.

Long term effects may be much more serious than Flu, as this thing eats your lungs and possibly other organs. Just looking at IFR is not enough.

We simply do not know yet whether it is a good idea to infect everyone.

Why is everyone here a medical expert?

It doesn't "eat into your lungs", and the great bulk of cases are mild.

> No, it's not a "significant risk". It's basically the flu to the young.

Normally being wrong on the internet is just ignorable, this isn't. At its best, this is 10x more deadly that the flu (more so for young people because almost no one dies of flu while young). You can dismiss that if you like, most people are right to not.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-younge...

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52003804

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