Individual risk aka absolute risk certainly matters more than relative risk. If people aren't sure what that means think of the frequent studies telling us bacon and red meat increase cancer risk by 20% (relative risk) but eating it means 6 bacon eaters rather than 5 in 100 people get it. Think about age, diabetes, cardiac and respiratory problems as increasing risk of death above the 1%. But also think about fatness, it's very difficult to get a fella with a really big neck off a ventilator even if he's beaten the illness causing him to be on it. A letter in Lancet last week stated 20% of covid-19 icu patients had pre-existing diabetes, 40% had pre-existing hypertension. I've been in the NHS 30 years and never seen anything remotely close to this. On Monday when we were asked to inform staff of the leaked imperial college London report, hardened staff were in tears, then got back to work. Look after yourselves.