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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8335002" data-attributes="member: 177">"Eh, it won't kill most people, so we should just ignore it.  Those people who do die, well, too friggin' bad for them!"Sorry.  You get the benefit of living in a community of millions, and a world of billions.  Along with the benefits come some responsibiliteis to do some bare minimums to look out for each other.Plus, the death toll could have been (and still could be, if we are collectively stupid) much, much worse.  As it was, we managed to largley keep our health care systems just under the point of collapse.  The death toll is like 1%... IF they have proper medical assistance and support.  It goes up, waaay up, if victims don't have that support. Do not be fooled by the results you saw in Germany.  Germany didn't have its healthcare system collapse, because restrictions on people kept the numbers down.  To see more what it is really capable, we can look at Peru - covid-19 at its peak there killed 2.5 people per day per 100K in the population.  Triple the rate seen in Germany.Imagine that Germany's healthcare system gets really swamped, and you reach Peruvian levels of deaths.  That would be 2000 people dead in Germany alone each day.  Across the EU, that would be over 10,000 people dying per day.Sure, "it won't kill most people".  But if we are dumb, that "not most" still becomes quite the pile of corpses.</blockquote>