More people are getting COVID. Okay. But more people are NOT dying. Why the panic?

THE MEDIA WANTS TO VILLAINIZE TRUMP at ALL COSTS....

There's still a lot of people dying.  And deaths aren't the only issue.  20% of covid infectees are so sick they require hospitalization.  These people will (mostly) survive, but they'll go through hell.  Some of them are left with long term, perhaps lifelong, problems, including respiratory issues and even brain damage.  If I told you that doing a certain action had a one in five chance of sending you to the hospital for days or even weeks of intensive care, you'd probably be concerned.  You'd probably decide not to do that dangerous thing, or at least take precautions to reduce your risk. 

The number who have died from COVID19 is approaching the total deaths for the US during WWII.  It took four years of WWII to reach that number.  It's taken less than a year for COVID to reach it.

The positivity rates are going double digits in many regions throughout the US.  Maybe fewer who catch it are dying, due to better treatments, but they are still staying on average 8 days in hospital.  And the COVID symptoms are horrible, like being tortured.

And worst of all...our nation's hospitals are once again over crowded.  To the point where someone with cardiac arrest might not be able to get treatments because COVID19 has taken up all the resources.

That's why the panic.

What don't you understand about ICU beds and staff availability

Hundreds of thousands is still a lot of death. 

If the number of treatable COVID cases overwhelms the hospitals, then those become fatal, and everything else the hospitals would have been able to treat becomes fatal too. It’s the contagiousness of COVID that makes it dangerous, not the symptoms. 

If the massive loss of human life doesn’t bother you, also consider the economic impact of hospital closures weighing down the insurance industry, and the resulting domino of the banking industry. Think of the money, at the very least. 

The long term effects are still unknown. MANY people who "recovered" complain of residual effects that may or may not be permanent. No one knows if the antibodies eventually fade whereby one could get it again and possibly worse etc. How is it you don't know these things when you present yourself as such an authority?

You can be on a ventilator and not be dead.  Mortality isn't a good measure - you can be alive and very much NOT be okay.

Wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47rC2ZS5RWc

It's the hospitalization numbers that are the problem. a lot of people survive but many need hospitalization, hope you or yours never has an emergency and find out the hospital has no beds to take you