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Re:I made 24 high-quality Covid illustrations. Free for comm... by hnuser847 on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:44PM (#25306041)
Personal attacks are against the rules on HN. I realize you must feel extremely upset over the loss of your friend, but the data is extremely clear on this. A recent study examined the relationship between comorbidities and deaths from COVID. Of the deceased COVID-19 patients in the study, 83.29% had a preexisting comorbidity, while only 16.71% did not.[1]

Age is also a major risk factor. According to the CDC's latest numbers, people 65+ account for 79.6% of all COVID deaths in US.[2]

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/media2.fairhealth.org/whitepaper/as...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

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Re:I made 24 high-quality Covid illustrations. Free for comm... by scrollaway on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:55PM (#25306193)
It's fucking obvious that less healthy people die more easily. I don't need data to know that. I'm disputing the claim that healthy people have, quoting, "nothing to worry about".
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Re:I made 24 high-quality Covid illustrations. Free for comm... by AndrewUnmuted on Sunday December 06, 2020 @05:43PM (#25327365)
I was pretty clear with what I wrote. You should have read my entire post.

> To have died of COVID, you had to be on death's door already, or so statistically unlucky as to make your suffering a rounding error.

Your friend falls under the category of the latter - the rounding error. Your experience is far from typical, but your foolish, fanciful insults, I'm afraid, are the "new normal."

I do not think it is controversial to suggest that a virus with a death rate of under 0.5% is nothing to worry about for a healthy person. It would be unhealthy and rather unhinged behavior to worry about it.

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Re:I made 24 high-quality Covid illustrations. Free for comm... by AndrewUnmuted on Sunday December 06, 2020 @06:02PM (#25327513)
I am sorry that posting links to mainstream evidential data gets you down-voted.

Age is pretty much the only risk factor - the average age of death from COVID-19 is higher than the average age of death. [0]

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db355.htm

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