Good grief. The virus is not more virulent (causes more severe disease) it has become more transmissible (more contagious). It is quite frankly ridiculous that there are people who thought and still think we’d get out of a pandemic without deaths.Rather stable? We had at least two or three variants appear before vaccination programs started. If I'm correct there are currently five mutations running around, and that's in just over a year and a half? In total, these five variants alone have been attributed to the death of over 4 million people. According to your idea we should just let this virus carry on and cross our fingers and hope it doesn't mutate into something even worse on its own. That doesn't seem like a good plan.
What do you classify as elderly? Because in pure numbers, a lot of "young" people have gotten sick, some even requiring hospitalisation, even if they haven't died.
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Hospitalizations and deaths of younger people soar due to COVID-19, PAHO Director reports - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization
Countries will need to maintain or increase ICU bed capacity even further if infections continue to rise at current rates. In the past week, nearly 40% of all global COVID-19 deaths took place in the Americas. Washington, D.C. May 5, 2021 (PAHO) – Hospitalizations and deaths of younger people...www3.paho.org
Others have reported how some who are elderly have barely had a sniffle while others who are younger who were healthy died within days.
I guess my point is it's easy to say "carry on, you'll be fine because you're young/fit/healthy" until you're one of the "not at risk" people who ends up in the ICU, dead, or suffering from the many non-lethal side effects of Covid.
And yes, likelihood of severe disease and death increases exponentially with age and comorbidities. This is fact and not conjecture.
Vaccine or not… You’re not saving every life. To expect that is wholly unreasonable.
