So coronavirus is definitely going to kill a few of us.

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Fortunately you have many other honest and morally upstanding reporters in the right wing media who you can trust.

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I want fair news being presented to me by fair and honest people of good character and ethics. I don't want right or left I just want reasonable people who consider and respect all sides. Brian Williams is not of good character and ethics. In fact, he has been proven to be unethical and admitted as much in his broadcast apology. I'm not a right wing person and I don't even really know what that means. Plenty of times I've watched Lawrence O'd and Rachel M and have no known objection to their ethics. Pointing out that Brian Williams is a fraud doesn't make me right wing, conservative, republican any other label you might like to put onto me.

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bro don't even bother trying to drill any sense into Walter, he's a fucking shill who can't even admit that Biden is an utter moron and failure and a disgrace to the presidency.

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I want fair news being presented to me by fair and honest people of good character and ethics. I don't want right or left I just want reasonable people who consider and respect all sides. Brian Williams is not of good character and ethics. In fact, he has been proven to be unethical and admitted as much in his broadcast apology. I'm not a right wing person and I don't even really know what that means. Plenty of times I've watched Lawrence O'd and Rachel M and have no known objection to their ethics. Pointing out that Brian Williams is a fraud doesn't make me right wing, conservative, republican any other label you might like to put onto me.

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bro don't even bother trying to drill any sense into Walter, he's a fucking shill who can't even admit that Biden is an utter moron and failure and a disgrace to the presidency.

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It is hilarious how you contradict yourself in every post lately. Super lolz.

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You can get vaxxed and still die.

All of the data indicates that getting vaxxed is better than not and that unvaxxed retards like yourself are much more likely to succumb if they get COVID.

You can spew whatever retard lunacy you want but this is irrefutable. Glad that you and dwai have each other to lean on though.

Being desperately alone in the coming winter months must be tough, lol. Couldn't happen to a better gal.

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Israel shows otherwise. It is coming, they won’t be able to hide the truth for long.

Quit being obsessed with my social life, what a loser.

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You can get vaxxed and still die.

All of the data indicates that getting vaxxed is better than not and that unvaxxed retards like yourself are much more likely to succumb if they get COVID.

You can spew whatever retard lunacy you want but this is irrefutable. Glad that you and dwai have each other to lean on though.

Being desperately alone in the coming winter months must be tough, lol. Couldn't happen to a better gal.

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Israel shows otherwise. It is coming, they won’t be able to hide the truth for long.

Quit being obsessed with my social life, what a loser.

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Why would Israel hide the truth?

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Israel shows otherwise. It is coming, they won’t be able to hide the truth for long.

Quit being obsessed with my social life, what a loser.

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Why would Israel hide the truth?

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Because Fauci and the Dems are trying to control your life and keep Trump out in 2024. So fuckin obvious.

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Israel shows otherwise. It is coming, they won’t be able to hide the truth for long.

Quit being obsessed with my social life, what a loser.

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Why would Israel hide the truth?

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So people won’t find out it’s all a hoax.

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Why would Israel hide the truth?

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So people won’t find out it’s all a hoax.

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I don't think Israel would hide the truth but how can anyone be sure anymore? There have been so many lies and misinformation spread about its hard to know. This seems to be one of the last remaining places where uncensored debate is actually allowed. On the major social media platforms if you post or say something contrary to the official narrative you are censored. Not because what you say/post is proven false but simply for failing to fall in line with the official narrative. The virus has exposed so much about this country and its people.

Id be willing to donate a couple hundred to the dwai/splitthis therapy fund... If taken up on offer must show proof of said therapy. Can be online or in person.

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Id be willing to donate a couple hundred to the dwai/splitthis therapy fund... If taken up on offer must show proof of said therapy. Can be online or in person.

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yeah I need therapy cause I'm not scared of a cold

yeah I need therapy cause MSM made me scared of the common cold

yeah I need therapy cause they must keep mass testing going to keep this "endemic" going

yeah I need therapy cause people who are allegedly vaccinated against a virus that 99.98% survive are scared of people who are naturally immune to said alleged deadly virus

yeah I need therapy cause the government is making people wear masks to remind people that there is a "liTeRaL gLoBaL pAnDeMiC" happening

seek help you hypochondriac faggot




https://reason.com/2021/09/15/covid-...evere-disease/

Local Detroit TV Asks for Stories of Unvaxxed Dying from COVID – Gets over 180K Responses of Vaccine Injured and Dead Instead





LOL NOT WHAT THEY EXPECTED EH?


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I get my news from facebook and vaccineimpact.com

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https://twitter.com/VPrasadMDMPH/sta...74108946550806


Interesting perspective.

Is it time to just accept that we're all going to get it at some point, and stop worrying about it if we are vaccinated?

I still think it's worth waiting regarding throwing caution to the wind, as better treatments for it will probably be showing up within the next year.

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I get my news from facebook and vaccineimpact.com

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it's not news you fucking jew it's a hilarious troll that the media only wants to report on unvaccinated deaths and they got owned

I find it amusing how 2 years ago AOC and Harris were at the border crying about the "concentration camps." Now the camps are 5x as big, 5x as crowded, 5x as unsanitary, Delta variant raging, no Covid testing, no vaccines required.

And to top it all off the Democratic "plan" to deal with it is complete censorship and pretending it isn't happening at all.


Meanwhile, in colleges with no positive cases fully vaccinated 20 year old are told they have to wear face masks when they are sitting in their dorm rooms by themselves. And they are thanking their overlords for the privilege of being gaslighted. It really is interesting how another Matrix sequel is coming out this year given the current state of affairs.

In other news I was playing poker at a casino recently. Everyone was wearing generic masks. Fine, whatever. Anyways, there was one annoying guy who would complain and call the floorman/manager every time anyone's masks slipped down and their nose was exposed. This happened like 15 times in a one hour period. I am not even exaggerating.

I had to go anyways, but must have been brutal for all the other players to put up with that for hours.

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In other news I was playing poker at a casino recently. Everyone was wearing generic masks. Fine, whatever. Anyways, there was one annoying guy who would complain and call the floorman/manager every time anyone's masks slipped down and their nose was exposed. This happened like 15 times in a one hour period. I am not even exaggerating.

I had to go anyways, but must have been brutal for all the other players to put up with that for hours.

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probably a BCR type dweeb, or maybe Sloppy Joe, they get a little bit of power and they won't relinquish it, they love trying to boss people around

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I find it amusing how 2 years ago AOC and Harris were at the border crying about the "concentration camps." Now the camps are 5x as big, 5x as crowded, 5x as unsanitary, Delta variant raging, no Covid testing, no vaccines required.

And to top it all off the Democratic "plan" to deal with it is complete censorship and pretending it isn't happening at all.


Meanwhile, in colleges with no positive cases fully vaccinated 20 year old are told they have to wear face masks when they are sitting in their dorm rooms by themselves. And they are thanking their overlords for the privilege. It really is interesting how another Matrix sequel is coming out this year given the current state of affairs.

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Democrats are great at pretending bad things aren't happening to minorities, when it's something inconvenient to acknowledge.

If one black dude is killed by a bad cop, they freak out about systemic racism, even if there's zero evidence that race was involved in the killing.

If 100 black people are shot in Chicago over the weekend, it's just life as usual in the blue-controlled big cities, nothing to see here. Democrats only care about the plight of minorities if they can use it to further their agenda, or win votes.

It's amazing that so many minorities are still voting D, thought at least they're slowly starting to wake up. That's why some Republicans were winning in overwhelmingly hispanic Congressional districts in 2020.

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I find it amusing how 2 years ago AOC and Harris were at the border crying about the "concentration camps." Now the camps are 5x as big, 5x as crowded, 5x as unsanitary, Delta variant raging, no Covid testing, no vaccines required.

And to top it all off the Democratic "plan" to deal with it is complete censorship and pretending it isn't happening at all.


Meanwhile, in colleges with no positive cases fully vaccinated 20 year old are told they have to wear face masks when they are sitting in their dorm rooms by themselves. And they are thanking their overlords for the privilege. It really is interesting how another Matrix sequel is coming out this year given the current state of affairs.

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Democrats are great at pretending bad things aren't happening to minorities, when it's something inconvenient to acknowledge.

If one black dude is killed by a bad cop, they freak out about systemic racism, even if there's zero evidence that race was involved in the killing.

If 100 black people are shot in Chicago over the weekend, it's just life as usual in the blue-controlled big cities, nothing to see here. Democrats only care about the plight of minorities if they can use it to further their agenda, or win votes.

It's amazing that so many minorities are still voting D, thought at least they're slowly starting to wake up. That's why some Republicans were winning in overwhelmingly hispanic Congressional districts in 2020.

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I find it amusing how 2 years ago AOC and Harris were at the border crying about the "concentration camps." Now the camps are 5x as big, 5x as crowded, 5x as unsanitary, Delta variant raging, no Covid testing, no vaccines required.

And to top it all off the Democratic "plan" to deal with it is complete censorship and pretending it isn't happening at all.


Meanwhile, in colleges with no positive cases fully vaccinated 20 year old are told they have to wear face masks when they are sitting in their dorm rooms by themselves. And they are thanking their overlords for the privilege. It really is interesting how another Matrix sequel is coming out this year given the current state of affairs.

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Democrats are great at pretending bad things aren't happening to minorities, when it's something inconvenient to acknowledge.

If one black dude is killed by a bad cop, they freak out about systemic racism, even if there's zero evidence that race was involved in the killing.

If 100 black people are shot in Chicago over the weekend, it's just life as usual in the blue-controlled big cities, nothing to see here. Democrats only care about the plight of minorities if they can use it to further their agenda, or win votes.

It's amazing that so many minorities are still voting D, thought at least they're slowly starting to wake up. That's why some Republicans were winning in overwhelmingly hispanic Congressional districts in 2020.

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I don't think this is accurate. Progressives do care about people. But they care about their money and their ideas more. And if there is a conflict between caring about people and caring about money/ideas, the latter is going to win out.

Trump and McConnell OTOH actually dont care about people at all IMO. That is not to say they didn't have ideas/policies that were better for people than some progressive ones. It just wasn't the motivating factor.

IMO basing policy on progressive ideology is so absolutely destructive that in many ways we are better off with narcissistic, uncaring garden variety white-collar criminals like Trump in charge than progressives.

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Democrats are great at pretending bad things aren't happening to minorities, when it's something inconvenient to acknowledge.

If one black dude is killed by a bad cop, they freak out about systemic racism, even if there's zero evidence that race was involved in the killing.

If 100 black people are shot in Chicago over the weekend, it's just life as usual in the blue-controlled big cities, nothing to see here. Democrats only care about the plight of minorities if they can use it to further their agenda, or win votes.

It's amazing that so many minorities are still voting D, thought at least they're slowly starting to wake up. That's why some Republicans were winning in overwhelmingly hispanic Congressional districts in 2020.

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I don't think this is accurate. Progressives do care about people. But they care about their money and their ideas more. And if there is a conflict between caring about people and caring about money/ideas, the latter is going to win out.

Trump and McConnell OTOH actually dont care about people at all IMO. That is not to say they didn't have ideas/policies that were better for people than some progressive ones. It just wasn't the motivating factor.

IMO basing policy on progressive ideology is so absolutely destructive that in many ways we are better off with narcissistic, uncaring garden variety white-collar criminals like Trump in charge than progressives.

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Progressives tend to care about people for their own satisfaction of being able to tick the box that they're good and empathetic. This is why ideology always wins out over praticality in progressive circles. It's more important to feel like you're helping than actually doing anything helpful.

Obviously Republican politicans aren't all saints, but I trust them WAY more when it comes to crime and punishment than I do Democrats, because there's not a woke ideology sitting in the way of justice.

Regarding COVID, both parties are fucking it up. You have the Democrats trying to exploit COVID in order to enact greater social change (and thus requires lots of lies and exaggerations about things to get it done), and you have the Republicans casting everything as a battle for freedom, rather than simply doing what's right. Then you also have the left's Cult of the Mask, which has been harmful in several ways.

My ideology on COVID lines up with neither party. Both have annoyed me in their handling of COVID. Republicans were a lot closer to correct, but they fucked up by letting the whole anti-vax thing take hold.

Friend of mine husband dropped dead after covid shot.

Another friend told me her friend got the vax because of work and stroked. She is now unable to walk.


Nicki Minaj hey, loss of dick function is minor at this point.


Fix your health naturally and THRIVE under all attempts at tyranny.

Split that was fentanyl not moderna

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Friend of mine husband dropped dead after covid shot.

Another friend told me her friend got the vax because of work and stroked. She is now unable to walk.


Nicki Minaj hey, loss of dick function is minor at this point.


Fix your health naturally and THRIVE under all attempts at tyranny.

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Lol 'friends'

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Friend of mine husband dropped dead after covid shot.

Another friend told me her friend got the vax because of work and stroked. She is now unable to walk.


Nicki Minaj hey, loss of dick function is minor at this point.


Fix your health naturally and THRIVE under all attempts at tyranny.

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Anecdotes mean nothing. Only scientific studies are acceptable evidence.

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Friend of mine husband dropped dead after covid shot.

Another friend told me her friend got the vax because of work and stroked. She is now unable to walk.

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As Gordon Ramsay would say,

Bowlshitting fucka

LOL, this is the funniest thing I've ever heard.
So it the left's fault that you morons aren't taking vaccine because we "manipulated" you?
How? You guys don't watch the real news.

The only good thing he was correct about is admitting that the right are a bunch of easily manipulated sheep.
#SethRich, #hydroxychloroquine, #Antifa, #FauciIsEvil

No, it was RW propaganda that manipulated the right.
It was Tucker Carlson and company that told you not to take (while he is vaccinated)
The only people that politized Covid was the right.

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LOL, this is the funniest thing I've ever heard.
So it the left's fault that you morons aren't taking vaccine because we "manipulated" you?
How? You guys don't watch the real news.

The only good thing he was correct about is admitting that the right are a bunch of easily manipulated sheep.
#SethRich, #hydroxychloroquine, #Antifa, #FauciIsEvil

No, it was RW propaganda that manipulated the right.
It was Tucker Carlson and company that told you not to take (while he is vaccinated)
The only people that politized Covid was the right.

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Ya it’s only the Republicans you literal retard.

https://youtu.be/-dAjCeMuXR0

https://youtu.be/m__6SldgsBg

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LOL, this is the funniest thing I've ever heard.
So it the left's fault that you morons aren't taking vaccine because we "manipulated" you?
How? You guys don't watch the real news.

The only good thing he was correct about is admitting that the right are a bunch of easily manipulated sheep.
#SethRich, #hydroxychloroquine, #Antifa, #FauciIsEvil

No, it was RW propaganda that manipulated the right.
It was Tucker Carlson and company that told you not to take (while he is vaccinated)
The only people that politized Covid was the right.

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you're not making it political?

If that’s the funniest thing you’ve ever read you haven’t read much.

Has anyone seen any studies regarding how genetics play a role in the severity of the illness? I know early on it was hitting blacks and Hispanics harder but that was mostly written off from them being more overweight on average than other races. Last month, my wife's cousin's wife had her uncle die on a Sunday, father die on a Thursday and grandma die on the next Sunday from covid. All things being equal, statistically this should be close to impossible but I've seen many stories like this and my wife has seen tons of people in the hospital that also have a relative currently in the hospital sick from covid. I've seen covid run through other families that are clearly overweight and they barely get sick at all.

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Has anyone seen any studies regarding how genetics play a role in the severity of the illness? I know early on it was hitting blacks and Hispanics harder but that was mostly written off from them being more overweight on average than other races. Last month, my wife's cousin's wife had her uncle die on a Sunday, father die on a Thursday and grandma die on the next Sunday from covid. All things being equal, statistically this should be close to impossible but I've seen many stories like this and my wife has seen tons of people in the hospital that also have a relative currently in the hospital sick from covid. I've seen covid run through other families that are clearly overweight and they barely get sick at all.

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There is something there it would seem. First people I knew who got it were husband of girl I graduated with. He died. 49 or 50. Both his parents died. His brother in law in 30s was on ventilator. I believe he lived, but was close to death. I’m not sure he made it. Sister also was in ICU. Thirties. Husband was maybe 15lhs overweight. From pictures, the parents were not heavy people. Sister wasn’t at all. Didn’t see a picture of brother in law.

But then you see stories like that church choir in California early on. Not people who are related. Wiped out some crazy %. Like half or 30 out of 40. Can’t remember exactly, but way above average.

Now they skewed older, but probably like 65 on average. I mean, thats like 5% fatality rate, not 50 or 75%.

I’ve wondered the same thing. Its either some families have some genetic component, or you have one person with an unreal viral load and it gets people far sicker than a normal infected person. Even that rose garden SC ceremony. For an outdoor event, that was an extraordinary infection rate. Being outdoors, it didn’t kill many, but it was bizarre to get that many sick. You have to think there was a person there with a viral load off the charts.

It sure seems some families have a genetic component, but you keep seeing these thirty something husband/wife deaths leaving a bunch of kids orphaned, and while married, obviously they don’t share genetics.

So I don’t know if there are genetic factors, or if it’s that a lot of Hispanic and black people have a lot of risk factors already, and they also tend to live differently. Like multiple families under one roof that is less common among white people. I’ve been curious about it since the start, but its one of those things that might take years to figure out.

I mean there are states that have 35% obesity rates, yet it doesn’t hit them equally, so there has to be some other factor. Its either a genetic component, or the person who exposed them has a higher than normal viral load. I can’t imagine what other factor it could be besides one of those two to take out a whole cluster of people. But they aren’t always related. But almost all have spent considerable time indoors together.

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Has anyone seen any studies regarding how genetics play a role in the severity of the illness? I know early on it was hitting blacks and Hispanics harder but that was mostly written off from them being more overweight on average than other races. Last month, my wife's cousin's wife had her uncle die on a Sunday, father die on a Thursday and grandma die on the next Sunday from covid. All things being equal, statistically this should be close to impossible but I've seen many stories like this and my wife has seen tons of people in the hospital that also have a relative currently in the hospital sick from covid. I've seen covid run through other families that are clearly overweight and they barely get sick at all.

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It’s always possible, but remember that some groups particularly the poor have worse overall health care access, and the problems that causes build up over time. Also people in the same family tend to have similar habits and be in close proximity, so there are a lot of confounding factors.

In this situation, they didn't live together but pretty sure they spread it to each other. Her dad was 59 and uncle was 57, bigger dudes but if weight was a factor than like 80% of the US should be scared shitless. Her dad was very active and lifted weights several times a week. Knock on wood, I've been fairly lucky through this entire thing to not lose anyone close to me so this is probably the closest. I do have a co-worker that's been out sick for 5-6 weeks. They're keeping it under wraps but pretty sure he has covid. In his case, we're talking a huge dude in his mid 50s, prime to be hit hard.

I think what BCR is saying probably has legs. For some reason maybe the viral load is high or more deadly coming out of certain people for whatever reason. So whoever they infect will have a bad case.

My wife has had situations at the hospital where she's treating a husband and then their wife ends up on her floor as well. The first person has no clue their spouse or relative is also hospitalized.

LOL, what more information does anyone need? This is primarily a fat person disease. Here is the fucking deal, you have a hard time breathing because your neck is loaded down with fat cells. You choke on your fat. WTF do you need people, its targeting fat people who have issues breathing.

Yeah this is an interesting point. Perhaps there is a way it transmits which is more deadly, which isn't presently understood.

Also we could simply be seeing outliers stick out as memorable situations, but are very far off from what is typical. As someone else mentioned, there are also possible other lifestyle factors, such as maybe certain diet types which would make you more susceptible to bad outcomes, but are presently unknown.

I also wonder if the husband/wife situation occurs due to depression/anxiety/stress from seeing their spouse get hospitalized for COVID, and wondering if they're going to die. That could affect the immune response. This is similar to how elderly couples often die close together (pre-COVID), as the death of the first creates a psychological shock which can then manifest into physical problems.

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LOL, what more information does anyone need? This is primarily a fat person disease. Here is the fucking deal, you have a hard time breathing because your neck is loaded down with fat cells. You choke on your fat. WTF do you need people, its targeting fat people who have issues breathing.

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Clearly more to it than that. Some fat families aren't impacted at all while several people of other families will be wiped out. I can tell you the people I'm talking about were average Americans, not 300 pound sloths, the 2 brothers both in their late 50s.

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Yeah this is an interesting point. Perhaps there is a way it transmits which is more deadly, which isn't presently understood.

Also we could simply be seeing outliers stick out as memorable situations, but are very far off from what is typical. As someone else mentioned, there are also possible other lifestyle factors, such as maybe certain diet types which would make you more susceptible to bad outcomes, but are presently unknown.

I also wonder if the husband/wife situation occurs due to depression/anxiety/stress from seeing their spouse get hospitalized for COVID, and wondering if they're going to die. That could affect the immune response. This is similar to how elderly couples often die close together (pre-COVID), as the death of the first creates a psychological shock which can then manifest into physical problems.

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All good points. Back to my original post, we're 18 months into this so you would think they would be studying these scenarios and be finding some answers. There's something there.

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Yeah this is an interesting point. Perhaps there is a way it transmits which is more deadly, which isn't presently understood.

Also we could simply be seeing outliers stick out as memorable situations, but are very far off from what is typical. As someone else mentioned, there are also possible other lifestyle factors, such as maybe certain diet types which would make you more susceptible to bad outcomes, but are presently unknown.

I also wonder if the husband/wife situation occurs due to depression/anxiety/stress from seeing their spouse get hospitalized for COVID, and wondering if they're going to die. That could affect the immune response. This is similar to how elderly couples often die close together (pre-COVID), as the death of the first creates a psychological shock which can then manifest into physical problems.

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All good points. Back to my original post, we're 18 months into this so you would think they would be studying these scenarios and be finding some answers. There's something there.

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It's baffling why theyr'e not putting much effort into studying all of these possible risk factors. It's still not clear to me whether my Type A blood or my high blood pressure are risk factors. There should be far better data collection and number crunching regarding these COVID deaths, and they should have a better understanding by now as to what factors contribute to higher risk.

We still only know of two definite factors -- age (the most important) and obesity (second most important).

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All good points. Back to my original post, we're 18 months into this so you would think they would be studying these scenarios and be finding some answers. There's something there.

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It's baffling why theyr'e not putting much effort into studying all of these possible risk factors. It's still not clear to me whether my Type A blood or my high blood pressure are risk factors. There should be far better data collection and number crunching regarding these COVID deaths, and they should have a better understanding by now as to what factors contribute to higher risk.

We still only know of two definite factors -- age (the most important) and obesity (second most important).

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In fairness, this is generally the kind of research that is done in retroactive studies, often years after the initial data is collected.

As far as doing actual experiments with live virus on human cells, I can't imagine it would be politically feasible to attempt right now (and is likely the kind of research that got us into this situation in the first place).

Like in 5 years some public health epidemiologist will retroactively look at some giant data set from some hospital system and do an analysis looking for risk factors.

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Yeah this is an interesting point. Perhaps there is a way it transmits which is more deadly, which isn't presently understood.

Also we could simply be seeing outliers stick out as memorable situations, but are very far off from what is typical. As someone else mentioned, there are also possible other lifestyle factors, such as maybe certain diet types which would make you more susceptible to bad outcomes, but are presently unknown.

I also wonder if the husband/wife situation occurs due to depression/anxiety/stress from seeing their spouse get hospitalized for COVID, and wondering if they're going to die. That could affect the immune response. This is similar to how elderly couples often die close together (pre-COVID), as the death of the first creates a psychological shock which can then manifest into physical problems.

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All good points. Back to my original post, we're 18 months into this so you would think they would be studying these scenarios and be finding some answers. There's something there.

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this is such a great point. We have incomplete information and yet we keep going back to the same damaging responses. Schools in the country are closing down all over the place because of positivity rates that should be of little concern. I find it so hard to believe we keep allowing this to happen to the kids. They're the ones who've taken the worst of the restrictions/shut downs and the ones likely to suffer the most. I hate what this thing has done to us more than I hate the thing itself.