Good news: If Covid-19 doesn't spike after these MASSIVE protests, I think it proves we can have mass Fall marathons

Giles Corey wrote:

conspiracy theories abound wrote:

120,000 dead with no end in sight, yet you continue proving your ignorance.

120,000 American deaths called covid linked, related, presumed.

94% of whom had at least two life threatening conditions.

How many of those 120,000 would be alive today with no Covid?

Maybe 12?

Honestly - I can’t work out if you are being purposely obtuse or you are that unaware.

Surely this is hyperbole?

If not, let’s use one of the favourite let’s run arguments on this post - “But how many people do you know with COVID/who have died of COVID” etc etc

How many people do you know with a pre existing health condition or who are over 70? Now honestly answer how many of them do you think will be dead within the week? How many of them would be dead within the month? How many of them would be dead within the year? If you’re completely honest, the answer will be a small percent.

I would estimate I know 250 people in this category. I can honestly say that not one of them is about to die imminently. Not my 83 year old mother who had bypass surgery a few years back, not the 90 year old ex marathon runner I know and not my 56 year old husband who has had 2 heart attacks and is diabetic. I can comfortably estimate they all have a minimum of 5 years left, and an average of 10-15 years of good life to lead. I can also comfortably estimate that 150+ of them would die within the month if they had COVID. Modern medicine and healthy environments allow vulnerable populations to thrive. It’s in no way a given that those vulnerable to a pandemic like this would be “dead soon” anyway. Science doesn’t back that ridiculous assertion and neither does common sense.

Okay. So with a median age of 80 (Covid deaths in America) and with 94% of them with at least two life threatening conditions, you "comfortably" estimate "they all have a minimum of 5 years left, and an average of 10-15 years of good life to lead>'

Can we assume you do not work as an insurance underwriter or actuary?

"Good life"?

Maybe if you read the post - or read generally - you’d have a better grasp. That wasn’t even close to what I asked you.

Or maybe you actually don’t have and friends or family over the age of 70 or with medical conditions.

How many people do you know over 70 or have a medical condition - vulnerable people - and how many of those are about to die? I then answered that for the people I know. These are the people you say don’t matter and that you are happy for them to die. I had hoped that by making it personal you might have shown at least a thread of common decency when bandying about ridiculous claims of “they were about to die anyway”.