I wrote about a question that White House corona-skeptics are asking dangerously and Millennials are sweating honestly: What do young people really have to fear from COVID-19?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/what-young-healthy-people-have-fear-covid-19/616087/

This is my attempt to answer as clearly, even mathematically, as possible.

The White House and herd immunity evangelists claim that "it doesn't matter" if young ppl get COVID.

But if a 30-yo man and a 60-yo man contract COVID-19, it is more likely that the 30yo will develop a months-long illness than the 60yo will die. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/what-young-healthy-people-have-fear-covid-19/616087/

"I wouldn’t want my pandemic plan to be, Let’s have hundreds of thousands of young people with lifelong illnesses. I wouldn’t want to tell 30-to-50-year-olds that we’ve signed them up for a high risk of heart disease and chronic organ damage.”

COVID's youth fatality risk might be "low" but the long-term-illness risk to young ppl's hearts and lungs could be as serious as the mortality risk to old ppl.

The let-'er-rippers are asking young Americans to play craps with their internal organs. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/what-young-healthy-people-have-fear-covid-19/616087/