With Covid, it was known early on that children were pretty impervious to it, as of last check, fewer than 1,500 19 and under died from it.
84% of the dead were over 55, diabetic, with heart disease, and obese. This population could have been attended to in ways that might have decreased the death toll, with out inconveniencing the remainder of the population.
Get vaccines as needed, just recently took one for shingles. Would also encourage others to take what is necessary.
With a death rate total of less than one third of one percent, it is somewhat dubious to compare it to smallpox, where the death rate is around 10 percent, thirty times as large.
Grew up in a time, where do to my health, knew people with polio, tuberculosis, scarlet fever and other diseases which are now easily prevented.
My life has been secured and maintained only via medicine.