dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:39 am
Frontline’s always good.
‘China’s
COVID Secrets’ •
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film ... d-secrets/
I Shrugged wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 10:01 pm
Just ran into my former neighbor. His wife died got COVID and died last month. She’d have been mid 70s, with some conditions. Damn.
When this started, we were saying we don’t know anyone who knows anyone who died. That has changed.
I know of a number of people who have died of COVID - and a number of people who died of other causes in the last year. The latter are the majority, so far.
All the people I know of were older and had the well-known metabolic-syndrome risk factors. That of course didn't make it any less painful for their families and friends, but it's right in line with what we know about how the risk of this virus is distributed. I also know quite a lot of people who have had COVID, or tested positive for it but remained asymptomatic. All of them were NOT in the high risk group. Some of them said it was the worst flu they ever had, others were mildly sick for a few days. They're all fine, no residual problems.
The nice thing about this virus, if there is such a thing, is the extreme skewing of risk to a very well defined segment of the population. That makes decisions a whole lot easier than if the risk profile were more evenly spread out. Your risk will never be zero though, so for people who consider any nonzero risk to be unacceptable that will certainly factor into their decisions.
Of course, to be consistent those people should also immediately and permanently modify their lifestyles to be free of all risk. No driving, no crossing streets, no travel of any sort, no participating in sports or intense physical activity, etc etc. I really wonder if there are people out there who are starting to think along these lines. That may well be the enduring legacy of COVID, which is not fun to contemplate.