> based on Germany’s numbers, which are more fully accounting for those with mild symptoms
It's only "5x" the flu (you say so, I didn't look it up) BECAUSE everything is locked down. If we continued to live and work as usual hospitals would be overcrowded (they already are in italy, spain and some parts of france), which means a bicycle accident, a car crash, a bad fall = you'd die because no one could take care of you. In Italy they had to call the army to get more body bags and more people to carry the dead out, NY is already running out of space to store dead people.
You can't just look at low numbers due to aggressive lock downs, project them in your imaginary world and draw conclusions while ignoring all the side effects.
It's only "5x" the flu (you say so, I didn't look it up) BECAUSE everything is locked down. If we continued to live and work as usual hospitals would be overcrowded (they already are in italy, spain and some parts of france), which means a bicycle accident, a car crash, a bad fall = you'd die because no one could take care of you. In Italy they had to call the army to get more body bags and more people to carry the dead out, NY is already running out of space to store dead people.
You can't just look at low numbers due to aggressive lock downs, project them in your imaginary world and draw conclusions while ignoring all the side effects.