"With COVID-19, even in its worst case scenario, we are not really thinking of pure survival, as much as its effect on economies and society, so it's a different context."

Unfortunately, this isn't supported by the research into SARS-CoV-2 I have read. Links on my blog lead to peer reviewed papers published on scientific journals that has not been revealed by enemedia to the public, and remains understood only by folks that have read the papers themselves.

Some examples of effects of SARS2 that refute considering it less deadly than the Black Death are that it attacks all organs that have an ACE2 expression mechanism, including the liver, kidneys, small intestine, and testes. The spread to these organs isn't a symptom in 100% of cases, but it's likely that when the testes are infected, sterilization to an unknown degree is an effect of SARS2.

~15% of infections with SARS2 cause lymphopenia, the destruction of lymphocytes (white blood cells, the basic functional actors of the immune system), which is Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome - AIDS. Again, the persistence and severity of this effect remains unknown.

SARS2 has been shown to be able to infect nerve cells, where like herpes it can remain dormant and re-emerge later, just as herpes outbreaks. This may be why sudden collapse and death have been seen, as the infection destroys the autonomic mechanisms controlling breathing, heartbeat, and etc. It's also probably why some people are losing their sense of smell.

Neither is it widely understood that all prior vaccines attempted for SARS have failed to create immunity, and instead caused increased morbidity and mortality upon subsequent infection with SARS virus. Some viruses cause this effect, such as Respiratory Syncytial Virus, in which a human trial of a vaccine caused two infants to die and many to suffer harsher illness.

However, just as catching the measles vaccinates one for life, catching SARS does too. When the virus re-emerges after a period of dormancy in nerve cells to cause a new wave of pandemic, the resulting illnesses will follow the pattern SARS vaccinations produce, and cause far higher morbidity and mortality than the initial infection.

The WHO has caused these symptoms to not be published by centralized social media platforms and the enemedia when it met with them to advocate censorship to prevent the 'infodemic'. The real fake news is coming, as it always has, from official sources, and folks that are only informed of the flu-like symptoms but not these persistent effects do not understand that actual disease SARS2 causes.

The Black Death recurred repeatedly for centuries, and SARS2 might also. In addition to the flu-like symptoms that kill between 1% and 10% of victims, depending on availability of medical care, and whether or not the victims have been previously infected (which may raise the mortality rate much higher), these other effects, AIDS, sterility, and sudden collapse due to nerve damage, in addition to the negative vaccination effect, may accrue over time to cause mortality comparable to the Black Death.

We have no way of knowing now.

For these reasons, the lax prevention measures undertaken by the US, the UK, and other Western countries constitutes a crime against humanity, genocide, and is of extreme concern. Due to this information not being available to the public, many people not at high risk due to the initial flu symptoms inadequately grasp their actual risk of AIDS, sterility, and sudden death.

I have been discovering and posting about these and similar research since January on my blog now, and links to the papers themselves can be found on my blog so that you can read the peer reviewed research and evidence yourself. I strongly recommend you do, so that you have as complete an understanding as possible of this pathogen, and can take rational actions accordingly.

This is not anything like the flu, in terms of it's persistent symptoms. Only the initial response to infection is anything like the flu, and even then it's minimally an order of magnitude more deadly, and if ICU beds aren't available, is probably at least two orders of magnitude higher mortality.

My best advice is to undertake every possible preventive measure to avoid catching it. Don't just listen to enemedia propaganda, and read the scientific research itself. The WHO hasn't made any attempt to censor that - yet.