I live in NYC and our mayor has stated that 50% of the population or more will eventually contract the virus before a vaccine is developed or we reach herd immunity. Serious question: why wouldn't I just go ahead and contract it and get it over with.
I'm a New Yawker and this subject has definitely come up. First of all, 50% of the NYC population is 4.3 million people. The WORLD has just under 500,000 total cases. So Bill DeBlasio, the NYC mayor, for whatever reason, is trying to cause an unnecessary panic.
Why not just contract covid19 it and get it over with? You don't know how your body will react to this, so first of all you can die. Secondly, if you catch it you can unknowingly spread it to someone else and they can die. Third, just because you've had it doesn't mean you can't catch it again. There is something to be said about the emotional feeling of just getting it over with. But getting it over with will only bring on a whole new set of problems. Catching this disease doesn't mean that all this madness goes away, quite the contrary, it will just be the beginning.