My family doesn't leave the house without a mask. I have no problem playing along. My in laws wore a mask whenever they leave the house as well. Yet still got it. Nobody wants to get sick. Of course nobody wants to lose family members to this or anything. Death in any way shape or form is horrible to the families. However why do we as a society pick and choose those deaths that are more devastating than other deaths. Why is death from Covid worse or in any way more horrible than death from say flu or cancers or car accidents or suicides or murders . Many deaths happen every single day in the country. Many more than what Covid produces. Yet the medias only focus the last 6 months is how horrible covid and the deaths are from it. ALL DEATH sucks but it is a fact of life and unavoidable. There are an average of 3 millions deaths every year in the US yet we are spend all our time focusing and worrying about something that has caused under 200,000. Even those as we are finding out aren't all covid specific. Death from Covid and Death with covid are drastically different yet still labeled the same.
It's one in a million for college aged kids. That's kind of the point on a football board.
testing is horribly inaccurate Negative antigen tests are especially fairly meaningless. All that means is that they weren't able to detect antigens in you nasal secretions.
The average age of healthcare workers who have died from COVID was 62 as of mid July. MOST of those deaths occurred early on before we had the kind of knowledge we have now and a large number of them happened in New York City. My spouse deals with this every single day of the week. It worries the heck out of me but they take the precautions to keep from getting it and they make sure they go outside for a walk during daylight hours to get some sun. So far no healthcare worker that I know of has picked this virus up at work in our system.
Ha. I was wondering if someone would ask that. My buddy is Canadian and he runs a fishing resort business on a lake. He got a waiver to fly people in by water plane. First we had to show passports at the border then his waiver allowed him to proceed to a private airport just beyond Niagara Falls.
Where they picked it up wasn't really my point. Also, 62 year old health care workers weren't likely to die within 2 weeks had they not caught it.
And all of this is mute anyways, as the reason for cancelling wasn't death rates of college players. All I'm saying is that anecdotes from people don't mean much. It's like saying that since I survived cancer (hypothetical) with few issues, everyone else will.
Goes both ways. Saying someone died from Covid is also anecdotal
It's about providing context to the numbers. You make it sound as if there are hundreds of health care workers dying right now from COVID. There has been a dramatic drop in the number of health care workers becoming ill with COVID just as there has been a dramatic drop of the overall number of daily fatalities nationally in this country. We've gotten better at preventing transmission in health care facilities. You do realize I hope that a large number of deaths in health care workers occurred in workers at nursing homes that were NOT prepared to deal with the COVID patients that Cuomo and his fellow east coast governors forced them to accept.
Where is that? Man I love fishing in Canada. And my buddy isn’t doing it anymore. He got tired of all the red tape to get his waiver. He had to renew it every month. And at age 66 he just decided it was time. So I need a new place! I will check this out. Walleye and Northern Pike is what I want.
NW Ontario. About 150 miles north of International Falls
The OP was clearly talking about his in-laws. Their ages range from 2 to 92. RedMyMind's story involved a 50 year old. Pennsyhusker is 61 and I assume his buddy is of similar age. Iroh2 was talking about general population numbers. Even your response was addressing how Pennsyhusker's symptoms were pretty typical for his age. No one had been talking about college aged kids as a group.
https://nipissing-lodge.com/
Anecdotes mean enough to postpone football season, apparently.
Looks great. I love Smallmouth fishing too
Poor grammar? Sentence structure? This is Tuco Salamanca?- ape/wannabe thug/damaged at the level cells reside? Mijo you are Tuco! You wear loud Versace and think you look cool! Real vatos point at you and laugh! Oh leva, appreciate me reminding you who you are lest you think you are some English prof!
The point of your post seems to be that the majority of people who get COVID who are otherwise young and healthy are deathly ill for at least a month...
