"Yes, young people are much less likely to have a serious illness from COVID. But, there are still young people who will die from COVID (the death rate is not zero for 0-18yrs old even without preexisting conditions). For those young people, it is death."
You may believe this to be true, but your sense of risk is ridiculously out of proportion to the actual risk involved. In the US, fewer than 300 people under the age of 25 have died from Covid:
You may believe this to be true, but your sense of risk is ridiculously out of proportion to the actual risk involved. In the US, fewer than 300 people under the age of 25 have died from Covid:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
During the same period that those 300 kids died of covid, literally thousands died of all other causes.
https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/06/23/coronavirus-covid-death...
For those young people, of course, death is also death. More young people have died this year from accidents than have died from Covid.