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Aside from the fact that you may spend a week or more spreading virus all over the place and to potentially dozens or hundreds of other people with this approach, there is at least a 1 in 10 chance that, if infected, you will need hospitalization and serious care. You will contribute to overloading a medical system, without which even your mortality rate would be closer to 5% than the <0.1% you seem to assume. It is simply not the case that this has no effect on the non-elderly; severe pneumonia is a debilitating condition even for the young and fit. For a large fraction of everyone who gets it, this is WAY harsher than any flu you have experienced, and even many in your demographic will need extended hospitalization.


Indeed, "atypical pneumonia" is a killer, you're basically drowning in your own blood and fluids. This can happen to anyone.




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