Originally Posted by antlers
Originally Posted by AKwolverine
Quite a few on the campfire want to believe every covid patient is old, sickly, fat, and of poor hygiene - not like “us.” The reality is that while those descriptors apply to many, there are enough people getting sick who have NONE of those preexisting conditions that it’s worth being moderately concerned about - and doing what you can do to prevent transmission.
Yep. The harsh reality of Covid-19: No one is immune from this disease, and even young, healthy people are being killed by it. And they are going down hard.


What are the numbers? Seems pretty hard to find anything reliable, but from what I've seen it appears that deaths in the age groups from 20-50 years old make up only a few percent of deaths. Also, comorbidities probably account for a fair share of those. It's not a virus that affects only the old and otherwise compromised, but that is certainly the vast majority of deaths, so far as I can tell.