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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
My best friend is a doctor and she saw the deaths of many young healthy folks (one in his 20s included) who all caught covid and had no co-morbidities. You're mostly right but I wouldn't say it's basically harmless to healthy young people.
gpt
Especially early on, when the treatment plan was "try something and hope for the best".

Besides, a lot of developed world healthcare systems run with minimal slack capacity all the time. People have completely forgotten how slammed hospitals got when we were trying to keep infections low.