Originally Posted by
wgscott
Another interpretation is if you are relatively young and healthy, you might be better off going out of your way to get infected early, to remain well on the left-hand side of the curve, and if you do have a complication, the health care system will be less overwhelmed and better able to take care of you.
(Unfortunately, the assumption that young and healthy people have little to fear is wishful thinking.)
If you're young and healthy, you probably won't even have to go to the hospital. Over 80% of the cases are mild and don't require any medical attention at all. That's not the issue. In South Korea, coronavirus was contained for the first 30 cases. Patient 31 was a super-spreader who passed it to thousands of other people. Because the virus spreads before people show symptoms, by the time the authorities realized the issue, the virus was out there.