And your point is?

Wow.. Dr. Andy Harris (R-Md.) at this appropriations hearing right now.

"We're safer from death if we're not born.. The bottom line is that there's some element of risk."

— Sarah Ferris (@sarahnferris) May 6, 2020

The risk is not merely death, but hospitalization and long-term damage, damage you would have to live with.  Polio, as a comparative, didn't kill so many people as it crippled for life.  I knew a number of adults who had been childhood polio victims.  We will have similar adults from coronavirus, though the damage won't be as visible as people who have to walk with crutches for the rest of their life.

I suppose that's the "risk" we have to take in order to serve the god of the marketplace.

Besides, this is going to be the problem:

Local radio station WABE reports that [Georgia Gov. Brian] Kemp on Tuesday said that the medical system in the city of Gainesville was facing significant strain under the weight of an expanding outbreak that has hammered workers at local poultry processing plants.

Harris County (Houston, basically) shut down a "tent hospital" after local TV news reported the "scandal" of how much it cost to set up, and how much use it had gotten (none).  Meanwhile, cases in Texas are increasing, not decreasing or even holding steady.

Where the coronavirus is spreading fastest https://t.co/HWZIvDJpvK pic.twitter.com/bEH6eDEaDf

— Mike Walker (@New_Narrative) May 6, 2020

We are still more likely to run out of hospital beds than to have too many, especially with stores re-opening.

I know coronavirus is supposed to "change" everything.  But what changed after the Spanish flu?  What changed after polio, except now people think they don't need a polio vaccine?  Tell me, what are we going to learn from this?  That risk is good, especially if you're the one taking it, and not me?

[Harris] then challenged Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, with pro-choice rhetoric after she said customers may not feel safe returning to reopened businesses in his mostly rural district.

“That’s their choice, isn’t it?” the lawmaker said.

And my choice to live in a society that isn't so stupid about communicable diseases and pandemics and the risk they all force on me?