To add a couple of data points to our anecdotal database:
A teenage daughter of one of my daughter’s coworkers has COVID-19. For
some sort of comparison, I knew one person who died on 9/11. He was the
boss of an ex-son-in-law in a internet financial information startup
that folded in the dotcom crash. 9/11 was his first day at his new job.
—Barry
On 27 Jun 2020, at 13:42, Marcus Daniels wrote:
knew one person that died in a car accident. I know one person who
was shot but survived. I know of people that have killed themselves,
but not personally. I know of one person in a nursing home that
died from COVID-19. It took many years for me to learn of the
former cases, but less than a year to learn of the COVID-19 death.
But I know a number of people that have some combination of risk
factors: impaired endothelial function (e.g. hypertension), older
than 56, who have lived with polluted air for many years, are packed
tightly with neighbors in an apartment building, who are overweight,
who don’t or can’t exercise, and who have cancer or diabetes.
Bring the virus to individuals with most of these factors, and
they have a good chance of dying.
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