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[–]wuzizname 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Probably when all is said and done. There was a spate of bad flu cases in January. Half the people I work with took time off because of catching some “weird bug” that was going around after Christmas. And unless or until we test people for antibodies that never experienced any bad symptoms we won’t know for sure. Politicians keep talking about life not going back to normal until there’s a viable vaccine and that kind of talk drives me nuts because I’m sure that there are a lot of people that are already immune and viable vaccines won’t be readily available for years, possibly never as there is no vaccine for SARS or MERS.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Talks about mortality are all a little misleading tbh.

COVID19 appears to be much less harmful than influenza among healthy youth. What ends up happening is that media propagate freak outlier stories about a 18yo dying from COVID as if it is normal when the reality is that- 1) The victim was morbidly obese or 2) Freak complications arose which happens with every disease including influenza.

COVID has skewed mortality. It badly fucks up the elderly and the very fat which is unfortunately a large part of the States.

[–]wuzizname 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed. If you read deep enough into the story you often find that the younger victims, and even a lot of the more elderly, had diabetes or cancer or other serious issues already.