Yeah, if it was Ebola, we wouldn't have to listen to people desperate to pretend C19 is no big deal.It's not Ebola, it doesn't kill healthy fertile age people in any significant numbers, we've lived with endemic diseases much more deadly than this; really society (or at least some societies) are just freaking out at returning to the distant normality of all settled human life before the 1960s, where cancer (as one example) isn't the only improbable but not-vanishingly-improbable cause of death before general systems collapse from age.
Now I agree with everything you said, C19 has been far less deadly than initial reports suggested.
And if one's concern is that young folks are still breeding, no worries, that's showing no signs of slowing down.
On the other hand, if one is concerned about the society we will age into, a disease that seems to kill the grandparents, and give heart issues to the rest is going to have serious degrading effects.
What do we collectively learn from our aged? What do we lose with them?
Many here in one form or another has complained about balance of grasshoppers and ants (of Aesop's fables) in our society.
How does increased mortality at all ages, but increasing with age affect that balance in the future? Does anyone think this is a good thing? Or even an insignificant change?
How does heart problems for a significant portion of the population change society? How does it change the economy? Surely there will be positive changes, but I can't think of any that come close to balancing the harm.
But sure. People have outbred disease burdens in the past. Economies have grown despite disease burdens. And even when most of us die, many will fill in the places freed up by our passing. But don't think they will thank us for dropping this ball, or live better for having one more burden to carry.
At some point, I would love to hear someone try to compare the costs of prevention with the costs of incubation. When I look at it, prevention looks cheap and easy by comparison to carrying this burden into the future.