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by randomlurking 1889 days ago
Disclaimer: I don’t have any data, so take the following with a grain of salt.

I don’t think so. First, roughly a third or so of the people in Germany are considered to be at a higher risk of Covid (not only due to age, but smoking or obesity). Depending on where you live this might vary, but it’s not as if only a small part of the population is at risk. This is why - even if you’re healthy - it’s an important topic because we as a society need to take care of each other. Second: there are young healthy people that are suffering from the effects of COVID for months. A friend of mine used to run and now struggles with walking for a couple of minutes, he wasn’t safe from the virus after all.

Despite that, the risk of getting COVID is quite low, so theres no reason for panic.

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>it’s an important topic because we as a society need to take care of each other.

We are not taking care of each other with this approach though, quite the opposite, we are destroying small businesses, putting people into depression, millions are being plunged into extreme poverty, making people lives not worth living. No country has ever improved its health by becoming poorer.