Really,I have friend whose Grandfather died from it and another friend who is currently recovering from it,he said he has never felt so bad,hard to breathe and every muscle and joint is painful.Talk to the families of the 500+ who died last week in Florida and ask them what they think.I am listening to the experts,I.E.,CDC and Fauci not some orange assclown.
Anybody who has a severe pneumonia can relate to the distress and pain of COVID patients. I've laid in bed with pneumonia struggling to breathe between coughs and when I did doze off I woke up to the gurgle of fluid in my lungs. That's not a comforting feeling. You're maybe heard of the "death rattles". The symptoms of COVID are not unique to COVID. The difference is that people who have never experienced something like that before are getting to experience them for the first time. It's a horrible feeling and the chest pain is indescribable.
Florida has a huge senior citizen population and unfortunately nationwide the vast majority of them don't take the precautions they should take to PROTECT THEMSELVES. I see dozens of gray hairs out about town without masks on. That's on them. My 89 year old RN mother in law says,"I'm not wearing a mask in town and I'm flying across the country to my grandson's wedding ceremony. If I get it and die, I get it and die. I don't care. IF I can't be with my family, I don't want to live anymore".
All that said, do we shut down schools and mandate that kids wear masks for influenza? They're FAR more at risk from influenza than they are COVID. The CDC admits that. Most Drs and nurses will tell you the same thing. The difference maybe is that there is a vaccine for the flu in most cases but yet only about half of the people take it. We didn't shut things down for swine flu. We got very very lucky with that one and one of Obama's cabinet members admitted that. That God we got lucky with that one. It had the potential to be every bit as bad as this one. (for the record, I wear a mask in potential public contact situations)