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How many will die if every human alive today gets Covid-19, and will those who survive be able to repopulate the Earth, or will the percentage lost be a barley noticeable blip when individuals in the year 3000 look at the chart of human population growth from the dawn of humanity to their current age, assuming our species survives that long? If a blip, this has all been much ado about nothing.

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> this has all been much to do about nothing.

The "much ado" that you all are bemoaning will be even less than a blip by the year 3000.

But keep coming with these really convoluted justifications for policy inaction -> millions of deaths, because in hindsight a thousand years later, a million deaths will only be a few among billions.

I find this way of thinking totally cold-hearted and devaluing human life despite knowing that you're thinking from a larger time scale.

If in the grand scheme of things, 6 million deaths becomes a blip, will the holocaust have been much ado about nothing?

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