I don't think you can ethically intentionally infect people, even volunteers, with a potentially fatal disease. Even some small percentage of young and healthy people are dying from COVID-19.
> Even some small percentage of young and healthy people are dying from COVID-19.
Some small percentage of young people are dying from the flu too, it's unfortunate, and it happens. We need to keep our eyes focused on the statistics not the anecdotes.
Every disease is potentially fatal. We definitely shouldn't intentionally infect anyone. It's just not necessary.
Do you have a source that young and healthy people are dying from COVID-19? Just curious.
The best I have is the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) which did a study on all 2003 dead (back when that was the number). Only 5 have been under the age of 40 and all of them had medical preconditions.
There are young and healthy people that show heavy symptoms and even need ventilation, but they all seem to survive.
Average age of dead was 80.5 and mode had 3 underlying medical conditions. Based on the distributions of the dead world-wide it's pretty safe to say that overwhelmingly the young and healthy do not succumb. There will always be a fringe minority, as there are with the flu. For reference, the flu and other common perennial viruses cause 40% of all cases of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia. [1]
People volunteer to be locked in facilities for 30+ days to be injected with potentially fatal new and poorly understood drugs all the time in exchange for a few thousand dollars.
True, but in a fast-spreading disease we shouldn't have to solicit folks to voluntarily get infected, we can just grab a few people who've tested positive.
I disagree. Infecting yourself can have a high likelihood of causing others to be infected, depending on the pathogen, and risks costing many thousands in medical expenses that will be borne by society at large.
Edit: Society at large bears the cost when healthcare is nationalized. If you get your insurance through your employer, those thousands are paid by your employer and co-workers.
>I don't think you can ethically intentionally infect people, even volunteers, with a potentially fatal disease.
yet, it is somehow ethical to send young healthy people to kill and die in the meaningless wars driven by corporation profits. I think your ethics has extremely serious ethical flaws.
