For the gazillionth time:
If you’re old, you have comorbidities. This whole thing is just people in bizarre fashion wanting to imagine that they, personally, won’t have any problems when they get old. It’s just self delusion.
77% of over 65 people have hypertension. The standard medication for it is usually a thiazide, which is a diuretic. You can drink cranberry juice in quantity and get a diuretic effec and lower bp, and it’s STILL a comorbidity. The fact you lower it with a pill doesn’t mean you don’t have hypertension.
Over 50% of men over 80 have prostate cancer. It may be contained in the prostate, but that age is pretty high for the radical removal surgery so recommendation is just wait for something else to kill you, because that probably won’t. But in case you were wondering, cancer is a comorbidity. Would you object to a doc labeling a death Covid when a guy has relentlessly falling blood oxygen and also has prostate cancer in situ? I hope not, because that guy died of Covid.
The list goes on. Roughly 60% of people have Vitamin D deficiency and when old, most are severe. Skin loses the ability to convert sunshine with age, and at US latitudes it wasn’t going to happen anyway. Yes, severe vitamin D deficiency is a comorbidity. Take away your supplements and you’ll start to develop issues.
So just stop with this stuff. It derives from young people wanting to imagine that THEY won’t have these issues even when they get old.
They will. The issue is age, because age generates comorbidities and the virus targets the old.
Don’t forget fat people.
Guys make a study of life expectancy. When you get started, you’ll encounter a term . . . HALE. Health Adjusted Life Expectancy. This is usually about 10 years before outright death. It’s when disability begins to appear.
Diabetes. There is a presumption out there that old people won’t get diabetes if they are not fat. Wrong. Not all fat people have diabetes. Not all diabetics are fat. You will find that age is more determinant than weight. The islet cells simply get old. They produce less insulin. If fat, less insulin is a bigger problem, but if not fat, less insulin is still a problem — And A Comorbidity.
You’ll find similar realities for hypertension. 77% of those over 65 have hypertension, and that number grows with age. 77% of elderly are not obese. It’s not even close. Hypertension just happens with age. It doesn’t need obesity to happen. Age is what does it. Maybe you’ll be one of the 23%, but clearly that’s rare.
Prostate cancer has correlations will all sorts of things. Some of them odd. Relatives with it . . . a study found 2nd degree relatives vs 1st degree was actually a bit protective. Nobody believed that study. Doesn’t really matter. About age 80 over 50% of men have a few prostate cancer cells. By 85 it’s much more than 50%. Fat vs thin, not a powerful impact on that.
For the gazillionth time Owen...
Only 5% “died from” Covid 19. Why is that so hard for you to admit?
95% died from something else, but labeled “died with” for the cash payout.
That's it in a nutshell.