So things are not so bad in the US, if one can still worry about dining-in food. Glad to hear. Media here made it sound much much worse.
I wouldn't take a single author writing about eating in a restaurant as an indication. Look at the numbers instead; it's pretty bad.
I'm going to stick with the advice from public health experts, which has been consistent and unanimous, thanks.
For details on how the US's death rates (CFR, per capita, etc.) compare, you can read more here, but it's not good. Other places aren't good either, but many places are much better.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/05/8993658...
Thats such a low number ~0.05% of the population. This should viewed as good news that the virus is not that deadly.
Flu can cause long term damage too.
Do you know what else could cause long term damage ? Lockdown
>still not well understood
Especially when is still not well understood, we shouldn't do lockdown as it surely can cause damage.
We may overreact for the unknown effects of Covid, but it's sure convenient to say we should do nothing instead and oops later if you underestimated (which is interestingly exactly what happened at that start of the pandemic and got us to our current death rates). Sad that your preference is all for the sake of leisure and convenience, perpetuating a system dependent on low wage service laborers that are offered no choice in the matter.
We have other options, but a flat refusal to offer or consider any does indeed leave every man for himself. But careful what you ask for, because when you force people into such desperation they will only put up with so much before deciding to take back or destroy it all.
I didn't say we should do nothing. There are things that can be done other than lockdown such as finding vaccine still have to be done, improving treatment method still have to be done, improving health care capacity still have to be done, etc.
>sake of leisure and convenience
Its not just leisure and convenience, people losing job, bankruptcy, mental health problem, suicide, domestic violence, delayed treatment for non-covid cause, kids receiving poor education due school closure, etc
Flu kills thousand every year too, yet we didn't require lockdown.
Likewise be careful when you ask for lockdown, because when you force people into such desperation they will only put up with so much before deciding to take back or destroy it all.
Lockdown maybe justified if the threat is proportional to the severity for covid its not worth it.