While this virus is a serious problem, because it is "novel", meaning we have never encountered it before, it's simply not as virulent or deadly as it might have been.
A very large number of those who get infected are asymptomatic, meaning they are not sick and have no symptoms. Alas, they are often able to pass the virus on.
A relatively minor percent of those who are infected get very sick, and some of them die. It does seem as those who get very sick or die have various pre-existing conditions, such as being very old as in older than 85, or are morbidly obese. Go ahead and look up the definition of morbidly obese.
Younger people, and those not morbidly obese who get sick are in for the long haul. I have a personal friend who got this over 100 days ago and keeps on having relapses where he cannot get out of bed. He's in his early 50s, definitely not obese or even overweight. But he's been very sick for a very long time now. Not a good thing. If some significant number of those who are infected are like him, seriously ill, needing a lot of hands on care, think about how this will affect everything going forward.
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