The number of parents it sickens is relatively small, since many will have minor or no symptoms, and only a very few will die. The way they see it, the economy will soldier on, and we can afford to lose, say, a million random people. It probably won't be them or somebody they care about, and it would just be on a par with, say, cancer or heart disease.

Nowhere near as bad as Endgame... so yeah, a little culling is good for the herd, right? /s