The evidence suggests that this is dangerous for anyone over 65. This virus is highly contagious, but in general not problematic for most of the population. Of course, there are exceptions to the rule.
It was obvious very quickly that the danger increased significantly with age and underlying poor health. Nursing homes, assisted living facilities and rehabilitation centers should have been the ground zero point for isolation.
That, I believe, was the point of "tossing the diseased dead over the parapet and into the castle" as it were.
They are making their move!
it is it that dangerous to relatively healthy people over 65 either. The nursing home population is most at risk
not even sure his highly contagious it is. Look at cruise ships/meat packing plants that are relatively closed systems and knit 20-25% of people contracted the virus
I am not sure how accurate even this is. I have many friends, well over age 65, who live in various retirement communities. There have been no outbreaks in any of them. I do not understand why we have not been given more complete statistics about the people who have needed hospitalization, intensive care and the people who died.
In order to make personal informed decisions about going out, we need information about, not just the ages, but which comorbidities people already had.
“Nursing homes, assisted living facilities and rehabilitation centers should have been the ground zero point for isolation.”
That’s what I was saying to anyone I could from the moment the first numbers arrived from Italy.
Now what I’m saying is that with $3 trillion, someone could have probably found an ingenious method or two to protect those over 65 yr old. Instead, it went down a hole, and the vulnerable were killed.