“Definitely...”underlying conditions” at play here?”
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Viruses don’t give a check up before they infect, they just infect. All they look for are live, warm bodies to attach to, human or animal.
You are correct. However; the virus has statistically had a much greater negative impact on those with underlying conditions such as obesity, COPD, etc. as well as those who are of advanced age.
Everyone is not at the same risk of dying, being hospitalized, or even showing symptoms the way we are being conditioned to believe by being shown raw death/infection numbers with no context.
Those who are in the higher-risk buckets like the person who is the subject of this story, should exercise greater diligence in protecting themselves. Meanwhile; the rest of us should be able to examine the information, evaluate the risk for ourselves, and continue to live a normal life without these over-reaching restrictions under which we are now forced to live.