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Worrying about a potentially deadly illness that you can do little about, vs worrying about losing your source of income and having to.. look for another job.

I'm definitely more worried about infection, too.

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My thought is the fear of additional medical costs due to infection on top of the bills I am expected to pay.

Yep. If you have to spend a week in hospital in the US it can break you even if you have "decent" insurance. Three words that strike terror into the hearts of Americans: "Out of network"

Bankruptcy is usually preferable to death.

I worried about getting infected a lot back in February or March, so I ordered from Japan and India several different types of medicine with distinct mechanisms of action that were hypothesized to help with the disease. Several of these are in Phase 3 trials now or have had positive RCTs published outside the US. I still wear masks and avoid crowds, but it makes me feel a little better. For the sake of HN's SEO I won't list them out. This did not include the big bad one that was most heavily politicized, but these are also used by hundreds of millions of people per year.

You can shield your kids from your financial problems much of the time. You can't shield them from a communicable disease.

you also have far more influence on your financial problems then a disease.

Financial problems are, aslong as the basic needs are met (food, water, housing etc) purely a societal problem.

A disease with a deadly track record and no cure is far worse and is something you or anybody else in society has little to no control over.

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