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>even a 55-year-old swimmer, cyclist and marathoner can die of this ...but on average, they won't. It's way more than a pious "this exceptional case confirms a
by Taurenking 6y ago
>even a 55-year-old swimmer, cyclist and marathoner can die of this
...but on average, they won't. It's way more than a pious "this exceptional case confirms an non-existing rule" thing. Let's get past the fear mongering.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoThat's a meaningless statement. They do die of it, at alarming rates. That's the whole point. Dismissing it with fatalism is fine for you, go ahead and contract it and take the risk. Just quit with the dismissive "everyone has to go sometime" irresponsible nonsense.
- Taurenking 6y agoBut it's not. 55 year olds are not dropping like flies like you're implying in your previous, false, statement [0][1]. Furthermore I have contracted it and guess what, I'm fine _now_ (sure we could argue about "long term effects" but at the moment that is big unknown). I'm also quite young so that played a part of course. It's not dismissive to say everyone has to go sometime, it's just the truth. If you're willing to sacrifice resources to give an extra few years to an already dying or sickly subject that's fair enough but pardon me if I beg to differ and look at the other side for the argument and focus on the repercussions for those that will not be _medically_ affected as much. [0] https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1327 https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1327 [1] https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid#case-fatality-rate-of-covid-19-by-age https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid#case-fatalit...
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoOk now that's just making things up. 35,000 55-64 dead in the US alone. Its a problem, and flat denial is not the same as argument. I'm done here.