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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts
COHR 185.83+5.8%Dec 19 9:30 AM EST
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To: Kirk © who wrote (12102)10/11/2021 12:16:38 PM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (2) of 26800
 
I don't follow the Covid information all that closely, and here's something I can't understand as a person who has only the basic knowledge of the disease.

Aren't the following true?

1- Most of the people who die of Covid are elderly, like 75+maybe even 80+, and they often have serious comorbities. In other words, originally Covid was killing people who were if not on at least near to deaths door.

2- The other group that die of Covid have "co morbidities", which broadly means they have known illnesses which reduce their resistance to Covid-like diseases. Their immune systems are seriously compromised to start with.

3- Vaccines significantly reduce death from Covid. Lately, 1% of the people dying from Covid are vaccinated, while 99% of recent deaths from Covid are not vaccinated.

If those three things are true, how many candidates for death from Covid are still out there that it should even be newsworthy? Doesn't it mean that they main group that has to be concerned about Covid are elderly, sick people who refuse to get freely available vaccines? That's gotta be some teeny tiny proportion of the overall population.

Is it really necessary that the rest of the population takes these major precautions because old sick people are basically refusing treatment?

Am I not understanding something? Are there these days lots of 35 year old healthy people hospitalized with Covid?
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PS - Is a Covid "case" a person sick with diagnosed Covid, or a positive diagnosis which may be asymptomatic?
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