Not to mention complications. Little is known yet, but there are indications that some surviving patients get permanent lung damage. Especially when intensive care is not available. Imagine having 30 million 40-year-olds who will be short of breath for the rest of their lives.

There is no need to imagine, we have the forecasts from the Imperial College report:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

There are 40 million 40-somethings in the USA, you're proposing that 100% of them will have lung damage.

Let's imagine that 80% of the population is infected, that 80% of cases are symptomatic, and that 80% of the 4.90% of hospitalised cases (this 4.90 is direct from the report) get damaged lungs. This is one million 40-somethings, not the entire population.

1 million sounds like a lot, but its only 2.5% of the population at that age range, and assume worst-case.

You know what causes reduced lung functionality in adults? Asthma, driven by air pollution from vehicles and coal power plants. 7.7% of adults have Asthma. Where is the war-scale drive to eliminate fossil-fueled vehicles and power generation?

So true, I can't understand why climate change hasn't been given the same considerations in the past :(

> You know what causes reduced lung functionality in adults?

Vaping. I see most of the young adults doing this. Its probably why they're having the higher hospitalization rates with coronavirus. They already have lung damage.

> Where is the war-scale drive to eliminate fossil-fueled vehicles and power generation?

Might as well just shut the economy down to eliminate that.

Yes, thank you. So many people are confused about this just being about the # of people dying from covid. The entire health system gets knocked down and all the other preventable diseases that killed us before are no longer prevented.