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COVID-19 targets 2 types. The elderly, in and out of Nursing Homes. Just check the assisted living and senior living complexes that are not Nursing Homes.

The second type that COVID-19 targets is those with already weakened bodies. Check out those with HIV, lung disease, heart disease, bad kidneys and livers. Obesity is a common feature. They are both obese and have weakened bodies.

COVID-19 doubly targets those who are both elderly and obese. Check out the hundreds of elderly in Nursing Homes in Albany GA. The obese died much more than the slender.

Many of the slender test positive. Everyone in those Nursing Homes was exposed. But not everyone died.

Among the dead are also many healthcare workers who are not particularly obese or in poor health.

The public policy we face is whether in response to a COVID-19 type threat, the government responds with a one-size-fits-all approach? Or if the response is more targeted, as the threat is?

Albany GA is the perfect example that should drive the policy discussion. In February a person with the symptoms of COVID-19 walked into the hospital. The hospital sent him home. The person died. A very large funeral was held. Everyone at that funeral caught the coronoavirus. So there was a second funeral. Many attended that funeral.

It was the elderly who died. So it was their friends from the Nursing Homes that attended the funeral as well as the non-elderly.

There is a second pattern. Nursing Homes bus their resident to church on Sunday. There, they exchange germs with residents of other Nursing Homes, and with the general public.

Funeral Homes and Nursing Homes are licensed to protect the public health. What role should they play in restricting the exposure of the elderly and vulnerable to the disease that was reported in January to target the elderly and vulnerable?

Should there be no restriction? Or Restriction of everyone? Or targeted restriction of just some?