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In reply to the discussion: As a diabetic, I'm very tired of seeing diabetics compared to anti-vaxxers. [View all]wnylib
(21,146 posts)areas for both ignorance and judgmentalism. Quite often they are due to misunderstanding evolution and the term, "survival of the fittest." Many inaccurately perceive being the "fittest" as some kind of personally controlled virtue. Actually, all it means is having inherited the right genetic roll of the dice for environmental conditions and changes, or having a coincidental, fortunate mutation.
That is separate from taking good, healthy care of yourself. There have been healthy, physically fit people who have died of covid or other illnesses because their immune system could not successfully fight it. There have been people with careless health habits who have survived it.
There is a genetic study that shows that inheritance in modern people of a few mutations from our Neanderthal ancestors has an effect on covid vulnerability. Depending on which Neanderthal mutation a person inherits, they can be more susceptible to covid, or more protected from it. Some prople lack any of those mutations, which means that others factors are more important for them. A genetic roll of the dice in the modern changed environment of a new virus affecting human beings.