The COVID-19 pandemic

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If everyone is infected by February, we'll have tens of thousands die from preventable deaths because ERs and ORs will literally be empty of staff and doctors. It would be the single greatest self inflicted disaster of my lifetime.

And for bonus points, a solid 30% of the entire population would have long term chronic disabilities. This kind of thing could literally be a downfall event in some places on earth.

And for extra bonus points, with spread that extensive, there's a good chance new mutations would arise which would start the whole damn thing over again in March.

So yeah, I hope you're wrong...although frankly, we're not doing a damn thing to avert it.

It's unfortunately a society-wide problem and we can take individual actions.

I think when people say "everyone" they mean "50% of the population". Weird. Anyway, trying to delay is valuable, both individually and societally (better treatments, better vaccines).