Acceptable Covid death rates

I have vulnerable family and friends and I know exactly what your situation is like. There is no “acceptable death rate”.

But vulnerable people have been dying of the flu for years.

Did you call for restrictions when this was happening all those years?

There are already widespread acceptable death rates in operation although most don't like to think about it.

Cars cause deaths but the benefit outweighs the death rate for almost all.

Economic values are placed on lives when deciding what drugs to purchase or quality of roads to build.

Even the flu causes a lot of deaths that could be prevented with lifestyle changes.

But people still caught and died of the flu even by restricting their movements.

But that was accepted, hence you never calling for restrictions.

The only way to stop people dying of the flu or covid is for everyone to remain in their house forever and ever.

The article doesn’t refer to acceptable deaths though, it refers to an acceptable death rate - what level of risk is a society prepared to take in order to regain some sense of normality. I didn’t read the rest of it because it’s behind a paywall, but that’s the general gist of any of the articles which are posing the question. There’s nobody referring to specific individuals, which I grant you would be disgusting, and I probably wouldn’t have any interest in reading said articles, but articles questioning what level of risk are societies willing to accept in order to live and go about their business?

Those kinds of questions are asked every day, and everyone finds themselves in situations where they are at risk from something or other on an almost daily basis and ask themselves whether or not the risk is worth it, and whether the level of risk is too great that it outweighs the benefits or not. The articles don’t mean that any death is acceptable, they’re questioning the costs vs the benefits - stay locked down with all the negatives that entails for a society, or risk opening society with all the negatives that entails, and whether one outcome outweighs the other.

FFS OP, people die. Get over it or move over into the conspiracy forum. If you underlying conditions then focus on those and manage them, because that’s all you can do.

It doesn’t mean the rest of the country has to pander to your perceived extra needs.

Where does it end though, should healthy people under 40 park up their cars as road deaths have killed multiple times more of them in the last year than Covid has?