> My family heeded my warnings, and stayed safe through the most critical phase when the disease was rampant but not obvious.
The vast majority of people "stayed safe" through the most critical phase, regardless of behavior. even a million infections in USA is statistically almost no one.
It's an exponential process and the world is big, and still now, deep into the disaster, most people haven't developed symptoms.
I have family in their 70s with asthma in the south-east of France, near Italy. They were warned in the range of dates I mention here, at a time when their authorities encouraged them to go out and vote during a rampant, poorly acknowledged epidemic for which the healthcare system was unprepared. A culture where friends and strangers kiss on the cheek twice at every meeting.
You've got a point regarding the population in general, and the sentence you're pointing at is peripheral to my point. But I have caused a significant decrease of risk of a catastrophic outcome to some people dear to me.
They likely would have been okay. But "likely" doesn't cut it when the cost of defensive measures are low and the result of being unlucky is permanent loss of health or death.
The vast majority of people "stayed safe" through the most critical phase, regardless of behavior. even a million infections in USA is statistically almost no one.
It's an exponential process and the world is big, and still now, deep into the disaster, most people haven't developed symptoms.