All of us only get so much time on this big, spinning ball of dirt before we check out. Maybe one day, we’ll solve that problem, and all of us will live as long as Methuselah, but right now, the upper limit of the human life span appears to be somewhere around 120, and percentage-wise, not many of us even make it to 100.

With that in mind, how many years of their lives are people willing to give up for COVID? I ask that because pretty clearly, a certain percentage of people just stopped living their normal lives after COVID hit. They stopped going to movies, to the gym, restaurants, traveling, or meeting with friends.

They justify this by saying that they don’t want to get the virus but as my favorite quotation of all-time goes,

If you keep living normally, there is a chance you can get the virus and if you do get the virus, it can frequently make you sick, less frequently make you very sick, and occasionally, it can kill you. No minimization here. It’s serious business.

Of course, so…