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In reply to the discussion: Ninety-four-year-old neighbor died last week of [View all]Johnny2X2X
(19,060 posts)Says the same thing, the elderly have been vaccinated and boosted at a very high rate. When you look at the data, unvaccinated people ages 35-64 are being hospitalized at twice the rate of fully vaccinated people over 65.
So it's relatively younger antivaxxers who are mostly the ones getting sick and dying. It's a pandemic of choice mostly now.
And risk factors are still at play too. And the crowd that always seems to ask about Covid deaths, "Yeah, but did they have comorbidities?" are usually totally oblivious to the fact that if being overweight is a comorbidity, 74% of the country has a comorbidity. I've had people say that stuff to me with a straight face while they're sitting there at at least 35% body fat and 70 pounds overweight. I pull no punches, "Dude, you have a major comorbidity, you're way way overweight, so you're saying if you die from Covid it won't be as big of a deal because you're not in shape?" There's still this idea that Covid is mostly killing people with one foot in the grave already, that's simply not the truth, it's mostly just killing the unvaccinated, that's the biggest factor on who will be killed if they get Covid, vaccine status.