3 ms·
>Yeah and those things make you safe, huh.. are you sure about that? Well, for context, the US military is overwhelmingly physically-fit and healthy compared t
by CapricornNoble 5y ago
>Yeah and those things make you safe, huh.. are you sure about that?
Well, for context, the US military is overwhelmingly physically-fit and healthy compared to the general population.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/09/24/military-covid-19-deaths-double-in-two-months/ https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/09...
50% of the 6 deaths reported in the article were >50 years old.
"Their deaths bring the military’s COVID-19 mortality rate to just over 0.02, much lower than the roughly 2-percent rate nationwide, but 50 times higher than it was during previous surges last year."
Seems like banking on your overall fitness isn't a terrible position to take... Delta variant is probably the main cause of the uptick in fatalities but they remain comparatively low (nevertheless something that led me to get vaccinated....just before they made it mandatory to keep feeding my family anyway).