Tuesday, March 24, 2020

No One Is Safe!

In a random, arbitrary universe w/o meaning, no one is or has ever been safe. On the less macro, more immediate scale, no one is safe either:
Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed News:The Coronavirus Doesn't Just Hurt The Elderly.  Data Shows Younger People Are Getting Severely Sick, Too.  —  The Coronavirus Is Sending Lots Of Younger People To The Hospital
It’s increasingly clear that early data out of China was an anomaly: the coronavirus is severely harming substantial numbers of people under 50, too.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:   It isn't only the elderly who are at risk from the coronavirus
Equal Morbidity Opportunity, as previously noted.

And if not morbidity, a nasty time of it. Not to mention the guilt of vectoring.
Young people who don’t suffer from severe symptoms can still spread it to others. At the same time, their growing case numbers indicate that they are themselves far from “invincible,” as the World Health Organization director said in a speech directed at them last week. Even if they don’t die in the hospital, they can jeopardize others by taking up beds and ventilators in short supply.

“Even if the deaths are concentrated at older ages, it still seems that serious cases and hospitalization and requiring ventilators is not entirely rare even at younger ages,” Jennifer Dowd, an associate professor of demography and population health at the University of Oxford, told BuzzFeed News. “I would say nobody should just laugh it off as, ‘I’ve got a good immune system and I’ll be fine.’ Because as we get more and more cases, even a small risk of complications adds up to a lot of people.”

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