Here is what is going on with the virus:
1) US Covid death counts (the only count that matters) have declined from the 3000+ levels of 3 months ago to about 275. This is slightly higher than the minimum death count of last summer. The present decline has flattened.
2) Many states are delaying reporting, compared to last year, so you can only get accurate numbers by looking back about 2 weeks. The decline was flat then.
3) Today’s data will become meaningful only in 2 weeks.
4) Vax for nearly everyone is essentially useless now. It aged and lost immunity. There is no such thing as “natural immunity” because it is an non natural virus, but there IS recovered immunity. This is immunity obtained by surviving infection. It has been shown to last slightly less long than vax immunity — and that’s not a measure of antibody titer. Enough time has passed to count actual infections. More occurred via recovered immunity vs vax at a given timeframe.
5) There is no worse or better. Both fail. It is not a natural virus and both fail. We hear many reports of vaxed people dying of Covid now. They were early vax adopters, it got old, and Covid got them. Same thing is happening to old folks who got infected and survived. They are dying too, and of course, they are a year older.
6) The only thing that protects you is . . . not being over 65, and not being around other people. NOTHING else works. If you’re not over 65, you’re in no danger to yourself, but you’re a potential carrier and killer of oldsters.
Those are the rules of the game. The virus allows no cheating.
I'd argue it has more to due with comorbidity and less to do with age unless the aged have health issues.
You have done a great summary of the ‘new normal’. We can expect a spike over it every year in what use to be flu season.
And I would add, do not go to a hospital or go on a ventilator.
You might not want to paint with that wide age-scary brush-it doesn’t appear to work that way in a rural area like this one-about half the population-both locals and snowbirds-is over 65-including me-most of us had a mild case of the Wuhan virus at least a year ago-and I don’t know anyone who has been ill since-most of us are not into getting the non-vaxx, either. There are only a couple of golf courses out here-so many of us are small business owners who do physical work like construction, ranch work, mechanic, etc-we don’t isolate and hide, most of us never wore a mask unless a customer insisted on it-I still carry a pack of them in my truck just in case of a paranoid customer...
The only person I know with a serious co-morbidity is someone who has had chemo-but she has been cancer free for over 2 years and didn’t get Wuhan, either-she is fine...
I’m thinking that the reason we remain healthy is lifestyle-someone overweight/obese is not common, and a drug free/no processed food natural lifestyle is something a lot of us follow-many of us work out-people still fat-shame family members who are obese-it is the worst co-morbidity to have with Wuhan and lots of other viral ailments-one size does not fit all-but that just isn’t healthy...
I like what you said and agree with much of it but, please define, “There is no such thing as “natural immunity” because it is an non natural virus.”
Specifically, “the non-natural virus.” Are you directly stating or implying that this is not a bat virus and/or was of human/lab origin?