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To: Winfastorlose who wrote (9291)	4/19/2020 12:48:12 PM
From: Kirk ©	1 Recommendation Recommended By kimberley Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27216

If you are getting treatment for stage 4 pancreatic cancer and you walk into Walmart and are shot and killed because you were the slowest person to run away after hearing "gun", then the person who pulled the trigger will be charged with murder and "gun shot trauma" would probably be listed as the cause of death, no? Random testing is now showing that up to 15% of the population in the world carries this genetic material whether they are showing disease symptoms or not. Perhaps these patients are not dying of the virus, but of something else and it is assumed the virus was the cause. Covid-19 is similar to a shooter.... It appears to go for the weakest first... but occasionally gets someone who APPEARS to be healthy and young too. Until you KNOW FOR SURE, it is foolish to say it is just a flu or we should all go back to life as normal.

To: Winfastorlose who wrote (9291)	4/19/2020 1:34:24 PM
From: kimberley	2 Recommendations Recommended By ajtj99 Kirk © Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27216

Absolutely - in fact I often think of COPD patients when I hear some of the clinical presentations of covid patients. I suspect you will start to see more parallels as more research is done. Hypoxia is a silent killer, and causes a lot of disability (loss of ability to lead a normal life) among it's sufferers. I'm reading more and more about how it affects hemoglobin, and I think that's something researchers need to focus on. I agree there is more unknown than known at this point. That is one of the reasons it's scary. I too have read the reports of over-reporting. I will not argue that it's not happened. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people with agendas who have jumped all over this. I think you could make an equally pervasive argument for under reporting some segments of the population...bottom line, though, we are all just guessing as to whether either is significant enough to change the parameters most of the world is working under. Among the minority of people who are attempting to make political hay, benefit financially, and all the other disingenuous activities that have been reported, though...you have an army of health care providers who are just trying to save lives and find good effective treatments to tide us over until a vaccine is developed. Unfortunately the good intentions of many are over shadowed by the recklessness of a few. I wouldn't go so far as to say everything is sheer speculation. Slowly but surely the pieces of the puzzle are being put together. A lot of people have the false assumption that medicine is an absolute science. It's not, and never has been. People who get sick from this virus display vastly different symptoms, and respond very differently to treatment. Society is clamoring for a one size fits all panacea. I think we will have to wait for a vaccine to see that. I hope as we go forward we will see less infighting and more solidarity around what should be our biggest priority, and that is keeping our society safe, our economy strong, and working together to find a cure. I don't think those goals have to be mutually exclusive. I think it's possible to open the economy back up while individuals use common sense measures to protect themselves, according to their risk levels. I already know I'm high risk, so I'll take the proper precautions to protect myself. I'm thankful to others who take measures to curtail the spread, even though they don't have to. I will admit to not having a lot of patience, or respect, for people with this attitude (below), but we will always have people like this. Thankfully it's a minority view. Take care, Win...hopefully a year from now this is all over.