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1. briand+(OP)[view] [source] 2022-07-16 14:08:05
I've lived through multiple covid waves in a large city where the demographics of the hospitalized cases, intensive care cases, and deaths have been conscientiously recorded and continuously made publicly available and the extreme age stratification in illness severity has always been clear and persistent.

If you are claiming to have seen "plenty" of previously healthy 20-somethings and 30-somethings who've died of (and not with) covid and "plenty" means more than one or two of each group since Feb 2020 and you're not jet-setting back and forth across the country to attend specifically to exceedingly rare young previously-healthy patients seriously ill from covid in widely-separated locations whenever they pop up, I'm sorry but I don't believe you.

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2. n8henr+8Q[view] [source] 2022-07-16 20:10:22
>>briand+(OP)
I'm not sure what you're reading into my words that makes you think I disagree about a large age stratification.

I live and provide emergency care in rural place that several times was reported to have the worst rates and case fatality rates in the country. Virtually every patient I see and community member I know had at least one first-degree family member die OF COVID, and many more if you include cousins / aunts / uncles.

In contrast, my parents and family live in a place not far away that had something like 5% of the case-fatality rate we experienced here. I don't think my parents know a single person who personally died of COVID, whereas I had 6? or so coworkers (not other physicians -- several hospital housekeepers sadly) pass away.

I can see quite clearly why there is so much controversy about this disease (or at least one of the reasons) -- because it's just affected different populations very differently.

We act as if each other is talking about an entirely different disease, and we may as well be.

> I'm sorry but I don't believe you.

Then I suppose it's not worth having further conversation. Best of luck to you.

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