Your math…or it appears, someone else’s math does not take in account that the human race has no immunity to Covid-19. Since January…less than 5 months, there are already 340,000 deaths and counting. There are as of 5/21/2020 5,303,393 known Covid-19 cases officially diagnosed which makes up less than 1% of the global population based on 7 billion. Can you imagine the numbers once the planet gets 20-30-40% infected thru the pandemic rather than a controlled vaccine program or immunity gained thru plasma exchanges with those known to have had the virus but have recovered. Of course, you would have to know, by testing who had had Covid-19 and recovered to do the plasma exchange.
I would agree with your conclusion about making your own decision regarding attending any kind of event if in fact your decision did not affect me, or my wife, kids, grand-kids, my neighbor and the strangers around the rest of the block. I wished that your decision about your participation, knowingly or unknowingly, only affected you. Unfortunately, that is not the case. A very nice couple in South Korea unknowingly infected 17,000 people all across the globe. I would not want that kind of responsibility and I am sure you do not want it likewise.
Adding a completely unknown( so far) yearly total of deaths via Covid-19 to your global total that has occurred as a yearly death box score we have come to accept as "normal’ or expected, makes no sense in trying to equate what is the acceptable additional number to die to maintain a global economy status quo. If you have a global pandemic affecting all of humanity, now or very soon, that alone without any other influence will cause a major global financial collapse taking with it the US economy. You need warm, alive, healthy bodies to have and maintain a workforce capable of sustaining a decent economy. Have a large percentage die or become sick, in a very short time frame, there is little to no productivity, therefore no economy. Right now, the US meat industry is cripple enough to send meat prices very high, and the meat department in the average grocery store has daily inventories that is either very low or non-existent.
Experiencing a global economy collapse thru an uncontrolled pandemic makes no sense and certainly does not offer any hope of some sort of control or long term solution. There would be no economic recovery, just a new normal born out of chaos.
At least with what rudimentary lockdowns many countries have instituted has at the very least bought some precious time to get our collective acts in gear for a workable, controllable, predictable, and sustainable solution vs a global economic and human health crisis waged with a “every man for himself” attitude. No one comes out on top in global economic society where every country has their hands in each other’s pocket yet trying to cohabitate with only the strongest survive mentality.
Freedom? Kiss that good-bye after a global economic collapse in tandem with a global health crisis. Forget about an airshow or flying a personal airplane. Just surviving, socially, economically and health-wise will be a full time endeavor for both the US citizens and what’s left of American leadership when protests turn into riots. It will make Watts look like an afternoon picnic.
