But there is some hysteria. my brother/sister in law have a 2.5 year old who was "exposed" to covid at day care. They are quarantining their entire family in fear. They will not participate in any family activities and will be missing a family funeral because of it. Keep in mind the child was only "exposed". She was tested because of their fear and was negative, but they are still quarantining their whole family.

Keep in mind something like a total of 300 younger kids have died with covid this year. "with" not necessarily "of". All had serious other ailments.

Now this creates tremendous undue drama in the family and those around them. Grandma cries because they wont let her see her grandchildren. They are doing it to "protect" grandma, but grandma doesnt want to be protected. If it was a few months it was ok, but now its 18 months with even more on the horizon. Should we just say screw grandma, what does she know at 85? maybe we clear this virus up in another year and grandma isnt here because she didnt die of covid, but she was alone, abandoned and quarantined for her protection only to die after a horrible year of loneliness and boredom. (Grandmas dont do well with zoom meetings.)

This family is otherwise healthy but the type that will wear a mask while walking the dog outside.

Is their danger with covid? yes. But the kid has a higher chance of dying in a car wreck than of covid. Should we stop living our lives? No.

the average age of those dying with covid is the same as the average life expectancy.

I cant imagine my family is the only one experiencing this. I dont intimately know a single person that has died of covid. I have friends who have lost or know people that have died, but most of them have been elderly that probably had a high chance of dying if they got the flu. In the past people died all the time and it was just chalked up to "they were battling cancer and got the flue. well that sucks they got sick and didnt kick it". Now we have a common element that is being blamed, while the total death rate is essentially unchanged.

Does LL have a place in this battle? Yes. It also has a place in battling severe flu and other items that have killed people in the past as well. Not just covid.