The trick with Covid is it is so contagious that just about all of us are going to get it. And that means that <1% who it kills? There are a lot of them.
That hearkens back to my own first public statement on Covid. Guess what, 100.0% of humans die—and as you yourself noted, people are going to get Covid anyway.
Obsessive fear of Death destroys life, especially if it parlays a not-very-scary Plague into very-scary Famine. And/or War.
Dear readers of the forum:
Some of you will die from the coronavirus. (—Some few of you: The virus has low lethality except to the aged or otherwise frail.) The virus may kill me, too; maybe, maybe not. That is acceptable: Life is risk, and death is a part of life. My only sadness is that sometimes, the worst befalls the best of people.
What is unacceptable is panic, bureaucratic “do something!” tyranny, and worst of all, hybris.
I hereby use an archaic spelling for the subject of a principle long forgot.
The biggest problem is not the death rate even if it is not negligible. 1% average with older people amounting to most of it is maybe not something that scary (I always say that this covid thing basically doubles your actual yearly chances to die IF and WHEN you get infected). The real issue is that we do rely on things like the medical service which can (and have temporarily been) be overwhelmed if too many people get infected at the same time.
So... if some people can't wait for a vaccine or better treatment to reduce those rates... maybe we could ask they be considerate enough to try to delay their infection (and probability of needed treatment plus risk of infecting others) so that it is not that much of burden?
We can cope with a 1% additional mortality rate spread over a few years. Certainly we are not prepared to cope with it if it happens in a much shorter timeframe (ie several months). Not without paying a big price.
I think of myself to be in a somewhat middle position between deniers and panickers but I still do think some measures like masks, social distancing and common sense are not that much to ask to avoid making this a bigger issue than it would need to be.
We are all going to die... eventually. Just try to maintain some order in the queue and wait for your turn. Don't push it.