I read Diffie had early lung cancer.
Re Joe Diffie... I did think about clarifying that part when I wrote the piece, and decided against it. Now I wish I had.
According to published reports, Joe Diffie’s dad died of lung cancer and old age a year ago. Since they had the same name, people have assumed that it was the singer who died of lung cancer last month.
But allegedly anyway, according to his widow, the country singer Joe Diffie did not have anything else wrong with him, he was just a normal, reasonably healthy 61 year old who happened to have the awful luck to get sick with a bad case of the CCP Virus and die of it.
It does happen. It’s rare, but it does.
Most common is for this to be what pushes the already-dying over the edge.... like my other example, Liz Warren’s older brother.
The point is, while it’s tragic for this to happen to anyone younger than 70 and without comorbitities, it does happen occasionally... but not frequently enough to justify destroying the economy for it.