[zentiggr]

Or a non-sympomantic kid gives it to another, who goes home and gives it to someone immunocompromised, like _me_. If I get this, I have a high chance of hospitalization and all the organ damage and ventilator consequences and etc that the flu has no serious chance of causing.

Your 'not so bad' doesn't cover the real potential costs.

[commandlinefan]

But that was all true, of a thousand potential diseases, this same time last year. And it will all be true, of a thousand potential diseases, this same time next year, too.

[moistly]

But is it? Really?. ‘Cause, y’know, I don’t recall the last time a disease overwhelmed hospital capacity. Only time I’ve seen refrigerator trucks full of bodies has been after a huge hurricane. IMO it has been a long while since we had such a serious pandemic. I don’t think your claim is at all true. There are, in fact, very few diseases as threatening as this one.