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Old 12-17-2020, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by canyonblue View Post
Oh for the love of God! Getting Covid and death from Covid are two seperate things. In the state of Florida 384,342 people between the ages of 25-44 have tested positive for Covid. Of that number 452 have died. That's about 0.001 percent of the positive cases. So yeah, I could believe that 0.001 had underlying conditions. And yeah, I believe it is real and it is highly contagious. Just not a death sentence for a majority of the population.
For those 452 people the death rate was 100%. Reminds me of the story of a small boy walking the beach throwing starfish back into the ocean which had washed ashore. A man observed what he was doing and told him, “son there are millions of those that wash up on the shore so you really can’t possibly think you can make a difference”. The young man listened respectfully, picked up another starfish and threw it into the water, looked at the man and smiled saying, “made a difference to that one”.
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