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Well with a >99.95% survival rate in the under 50 age group, they are not exactly alone.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

Survival shouldn’t be the only objective, there are plenty of lasting impacts that aren’t death experienced by many more people.

When 20m Americans have had it, you’re going to see some weird edge cases.

At such a high and serious rate?

Where do you see that rate in your source? You seem to be off by an order of magnitude.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01738-2

Edit: I misread your qualifier of "under 50 age group". Overall fatality rate seems to be around 0.4% according to the CDC site.

The over fatality rate is actually lower since that listed rate only applies to symptomatic patients. Given their estimate for Asymptomatic 35% you arrive at 0.26%.

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