# What percentage "relatively unharmed" by pandemic? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [February 3, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-relatively-unharmed-by-pandemic/932141 "2021-02-03T15:38:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-relatively-unharmed-by-pandemic/932141/2 "2021-02-03T16:40:29Z")
Here’s a vaguely similar thread from July > [@I'm fine/I'm fucked: personal, selfish pandemic experiences you are having now](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fine-im-fucked-personal-selfish-pandemic-experiences-you-are-having-now/914023): > > I’ll preface this by saying that I’m not so self-absorbed - and I assume you, dear reader, aren’t either - that I think everything is a-okay as long as my life continues without undue disruption. Every person who is sick, mourning the loss of a loved one, terrified about finances due to job loss - I feel empathy and sorrow for them, and I will advocate for, live by, and vote for the policies that can improve their circumstances. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get personal. What happened … Though that was mostly folks talking about their own personal harmed/unharmed factors, not speculating on larger-scale statistics. Within my circle of friends and neighbors here in one of the biggest COVID hotspots during the summer, substantially 100% of them are merely inconvenienced. In some cases they’re sheltering pretty hard and eventually that lack of social interaction is going to take a toll on their mental or physical health. But so far that’s probably not an irreversible change for any of them. That’s a small sample of roughly 100 households, and very un-diverse. I think that if we were to rank order people by severity of impact, we’d have the dead, the crippled, a bunch of destroyed small businesses and shattered marriages, then a very long tail of people inconvenienced to greater then lesser degrees. A fairly small percentage of everyone has born the brunt of the disease and born the brunt of the reactions to the disease. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-relatively-unharmed-by-pandemic/932141)._