@Shadowman311 @sun

1) Covid does affect the young. It's killed a child in my extended circles, even.
2) It's not '99.7% survivable' -- survival depends on your age, obesity level and comorbidities
3) but even for the age group that '99.7%' is accurate for - - that's *per infection*. And with infection, covid does damage to your immune system so your chance of surviving the next infection is lower.
4) and covid *causes* comorbidities so that even if you survive -- your chance of dying from other things (cancer, heart disease, diabetes) increases
5) and of course, that's just survival. There's lots of people who were part of the 'survived' group that lost functionality of their body -- everything from permanently losing sense of taste/smell to having to be on the medication treadmill for life to chronic depression and emotional deregulation.

and what's more
it was ALL PREVENTABLE.

the tens of millions of dead, hundreds of millions of disabled ALL of it was preventable
and the NEXT tens of million to die ,and hundreds of millions who will be disabled from it don't HAVE to get it. because public health agencies should be protecting people from it.

generally : people's health is part of 'the economy'. There are millions who have had to retire early, including the people with stuff like early-onset-dementia at 21 are not going to be meaningfully contributing to the economy and will be a drag for a generation even if we stop infection now. Those who will be deadweight from infection to come will be one of the bigger challenges humanity will face in the decades to come.