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PoindexterOglethorpe

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16. The reality is, not everyone is at equal risk from this.
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:57 PM
Mar 2020

And so it's a valid question. It's a valid question to ask if the Italian medical chief had any co-morbidities or underlying health issues.

All those people at the nursing home who died. It really does matter that they were elderly and at greater risk. It also seems as if that nursing home may not have done a very good job of protecting them.

Random young healthy people are NOT dying from this.

And yeah, I'm in excellent health. I'm 71, so I'm at least theoretically in a higher risk age group, but I'm not particularly concerned.

To respond as if everyone who gets sick or dies is at the same risk as those who don't get sick or who recover, is to profoundly mis-understand what's going on.

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