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To: daniel1212

Sure. People with underlying health issues are far more likely to die of COVID-19. We all know that. The question that should be asked is: What percentage of people have underlying health issues that make them vulnerable? Are these people at fault? Do they deserve to die? Maybe if they are smokers or fat as a pig, but...

My parents, for example, are in their seventies, aren’t fat at all, do not smoke, but have hypertension. They can surely be here 10 or 15 more years. If they got COVID-19, it would probably be serious and who knows whether or not they would survive.


46 posted on 04/10/2020 7:21:00 AM PDT by Czech_Occidentalist
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To: Czech_Occidentalist
Sure. People with underlying health issues are far more likely to die of COVID-19. We all know that. The question that should be asked is: What percentage of people have underlying health issues that make them vulnerable? Are these people at fault? Do they deserve to die? Maybe if they are smokers or fat as a pig, but... My parents, for example, are in their seventies, aren’t fat at all, do not smoke, but have hypertension. They can surely be here 10 or 15 more years. If they got COVID-19, it would probably be serious and who knows whether or not they would survive.

Which are precisely the class of persons that needs to be kept at distance from the infected, especially in their own house or hospital. Likewise those who are infectious. Give them sun and fresh air and walks when possible. In contrast, shutting down schools, outlawing voluntary community and commerce with shelter-in-place (until they get too sick from being cooped up with the infected) for all but a few (due to unemployment) will cost more in the long run then risking healthy people to be infected until it does out due to recoveries and weakening of the virus, as with the flu.

54 posted on 04/10/2020 10:44:00 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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