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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Quarantines are for sick/vulnerable people, not healthy people."

Risk factors for severe COVID-19 complications include obesity, cancer, diabetes, being over 65 years old, heart conditions, lung conditions, and kidney conditions.

42% of the US is obese. 5% have cancer or are cancer survivors. 10% have diabetes. 15% are over 65. Nearly half of American adults have cardiovascular disease. 11% have chronic lung disease. 11% have chronic kidney disease.

While there's overlap on much of these, some estimates put ~60% of the total US population as having risk factors for severe COVID-19 complications. 23% of the population are children. So we've got about 17% of the country who can actually work without high risk right now.

Not an argument in favor of shutdowns (I'm against shutdowns, mandates, etc.), but this "healthy people" concept is largely a myth. We are NOT a healthy nation. We're a nation primarily made up of sick and dying people who have failed to take care of themselves and are now paying the price.

109 posted on 12/28/2020 12:45:20 PM PST by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

So if we took care of ourselves we would live forever?


111 posted on 12/28/2020 12:51:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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