Source? This is a virus killing a ton of people and leaving many more flat on their backs for weeks... To suggest that it's "highly possible" someone's symptoms are from anxiety is kind of insulting IMO.
its not.
current best estimate of ifr according to cdc :
0-19 years: 0.00003
20-49 years: 0.0002
50-69 years: 0.005
70+ years: 0.054
Percent of infections that are asymptomatic: 40%
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...
Which is a good news that so many the cases are asymptomatic and the ifr is so low.
Which is also inline with my own observation, I know almost nobody get really sick from covid.
I still go out whenever I can, still travel whenever I can, still doing normal socialization/gathering as I possibly still can.
All-causes mortality is up quite a bit too.
Though i could understand that for some people even 1 death is a lot.
What about million people suffering due to lockdown? To you they should just endure it right?
How about you, how much low is low to you ? 0 death ? 1 death ?
How much is lockdown suffering is acceptable to you ?
1. The human population is very large so even the smallest fraction is a sensational number.
2. Any death is a tragedy for someone, not the least the person who died.
This creates a situation where you have lots of people talking past each other.
This is a graph of historical deaths in Sweden which has a similar death rate as the US. https://twitter.com/PanData19/status/1297919439212552193/pho...
While this year isn't over yet there has been years in my life time with worse death rates that went by completely unnoticed. Looking back in a couple of years I don't think people are gonna say that a lot of people died this year.
The thing is decision to lockdown is not just affect you, it affect other people too.