The 1 in 50 is not the chances for most people, that's exorbitantly high for most people and completely unrealistic.
The numbers are quite clear. You can go to any site that tracks the numbers (there are 4 below) and you will see that on average 2% of the people who test positive for the virus die.
You can argue that "it's usually only the old and the sick" if you want, but what kind of a person does that make you? Do you want to be the one who passes it on to them?
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ - see the "Closed Cases" box
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/
https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid - see the "Case fatality rate of COVID-19 graph"
The 1 in 50 is not the chances for most people, that's exorbitantly high for most people and completely unrealistic.
The numbers are quite clear. You can go to any site that tracks the numbers (there are 4 below) and you will see that on average 2% of the people who test positive for the virus die.
You can argue that "it's usually only the old and the sick" if you want, but what kind of a person does that make you?
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ - see the "Closed Cases" box
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/
https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid - see the "Case fatality rate of COVID-19 graph"