re: Insanity...

Saint, there are probably far more people that can say the same thing but don't know it. COVID-19 isn't particularly lethal for most people. But if you are in the vulnerable subset, it is pretty deadly. This virus has a hockey stick shaped mortality rate. If you are young, relatively healthy, your odds of surviving it are really high. You keep reading about anecdotal cases that are otherwise healthy and are now on a ventilator. Those are exceptions. Then there's the handle of the hockey stick where as your age increases and your underlying health decreases, your odds of succumbing climb rapidly. And all the medical community can do for you at this point is mechanically support you until you either fight it off or lose the battle. When this is all said and done, I think the mortality rate in most of the world will be closer to 1% than the 6% it is in Italy. Italy is what happens when you don't bend the curve and the health care system gets overwhelmed and starts to fail. This is serious. Social distancing works. Do your part until we can bend the curve.