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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Perhaps I wasn’t as clear as I should have been. Where the old and sick survive and the young die, co-morbidities apparently are not relevant. Something else must be at work. Assume an 88 year old sails thru this with no impact save a cold. (I know of this.). This person is in the category of those who should be physically unable to resist infection and do well following infection. He must have some unique defense to it. Something in his genetic background that rendered him robust to it exists. But what? Who knows?
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No, that's just wrong. It is common for a disease to affect different people differently, but that doesn't mean that the reason is genetic. "Something else is at work," yes, but it doesn't mean that it is something in someone's genetic background.
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Something else is at play. I cannot deduce a stronger answer to fill in that blank than genetics.
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This may be true, but it is a description of your deductive abilities, not the significance of genetics.
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As to your second point, it could be. That smoking appears to confer protection proves a random thing you in jest or eat could be the reason. But that seems facially far less likely than some quirky advantage conferred thru genetics.
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There is so much that is beyond comprehension about why people do or don't die in individual circumstances. Saying "it must be genetics" is as rational and explanative as saying "it must be God's will," but if it makes you feel better, go nuts.
