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Originally Posted by Icky Thump
Clarified that for you. This virus is unpredictable and deadly. Just heard of two more people in a family that got it. Dad hospitalized but recovered. 50YO model of health. Son cough for two days. No one else in the family.
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There’s a definite genetic component at work within the set of younger people who are doing poorly with it. I just don’t think we understand it yet.
There are loads of people in their 60s and 70s who are getting it and having mild reactions. We remain, illogically, fixated on outliers.
But however you slice it, even Sweden’s death numbers are not insane. It’s all quite manageable as long as people take care not to overwhelm the health system. I can’t speak for those rubes who were out protesting in some areas, and wish to go back to movie theaters and concerts immediately, but I can say even in this low information state where I live, people are behaving responsibly. The modestly to highly intelligent populations can be relied upon to go about their lives and keep this in control.
Cities are a bit more challenged because of density. That’s trickier. But cities are not the whole country. I think it’d everyone well to think of this disease more locally than nationally and regionally. I’m in a hot spot for it. The community 200 miles away is not, and therefore should not be under restrictions like those imposed on me.
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