@ACautionaryTale I wasn't talking about deaths so much as lives being impacted by long-term symptoms. I've had the wretched virus for 3 months now; I become breathless whenever I try to do anything and I have nasty coughing fits. There are a lot of people in my position, though obviously still a very small percentage of the total, I'm sure.
No, I wouldn't say that you're defective as a person, but I do find your lack of empathy hard to understand. Yes, you could say that life is a terminal illness, but most of us would like to be around to enjoy it for longer, and for our loved ones to be around too.
I'm not saying that living in a social distancing way is healthy, however, and it really has to be for a limited time. So we will be sending our DD1 (11) to school this week, she starts on Thursday. I'm sad that DD2 (8) can't go back. She's missed her friends so much. This is no life for them, unable to visit their friends' houses. My DH has asthma, as I said earlier, but he's all for schools opening again.
I agree that we need to learn how to live with risk. It was so different when I was a child, when there were illnesses like measles, whooping cough, polio and smallpox (before it was eradicated). I also saw a big difference when I was in Africa. There are millions who die every year from malaria but people don't freak out every time they see a mosquito. You take what precautions you can and then just get on with life.