You didn't throw out any stats. You threw out some numbers and insinuated they meant something.

If 'died with COVID' is so funny to you, explain my previous post where a murder/suicide was counted as two COVID deaths.

Reading all your posts, 'fight this enemy' to you means, 'my way or the highway'.

There is no universal agreement on how to fight COVID.

Masks don't work.

I just made an appointment with my PCP for my Moderna booster shot for Sept. 24th. I'm over 65 but under 75.

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N95 masks are protective. They are part of the arsenal of PPE used by health care workers. If those who are unable to be vaccinated can not depend on those protective masks then that is just a horrible outcome for them.

Why? It's not yet been approved, unless you're immunocompromised...

Yeah, I noticed Ol' Ben Conveniently ignored that post...

Yeah, but most aren't wearing N95 masks...

Sure hope people are warned bf they get too close. Should you even go? Sweating and all...concerns me... in fact surprised it's not mandated.

I called the VA today , I’m 82 but
 

because I have no health issues , I’ll probably have to wait till first of month , I could go to my primary care person st VA who I only see once a year to stay in system but I don’t want to bother, I have excellent health insurance so I don’t go , I would if I didn’t have great health insurance to go with Medicare , the VA puts out a good product

Oh enough already. Too many people have died, unnecessarily. We have vaccines available, and studies show masks will help end the pandemic. Its that simple. Smarten up, get vaccinated, and wear a friggin mask when you need to.

Sorry, but I have no intention of wearing a mask. Oh, you said "when you need to." I won't need to. If you don't trust your vaccination, you certainly shouldn't trust a cloth or paper mask. But that is just my opinion.
We have a lot of people in the World so losing a few million won't make much difference. Won't even stop global climate change...:clap2:

The plague did. The flu did not.

And here's some really nifty news:

COVID-19, all strains from beginning in late 2019 til now, have caused or contributed to the death of more people who died from the BIG Spanish influenza (or complications of the Spanish flu) epidemic of 1918.

By "contributed to" and "complications of" I mean - people who would have lived longer, with a reasonable quality of life, but because of the illness, developed or exacerbated pre-existing medical conditions such that they ended up dead anyway.

So being 30 pounds overweight wouldn't have killed them, 20 years later. But being 30 pounds overweight AND having COVID-19, was the one-two punch that got them.

Having asthma wouldn't have killed them. But the combination of having asthma and getting COVID put them into a perpetual asthma attack that they were unable to get out of, and they died.

Pre-existing conditions are not usually deadly in and of themselves. But combined with a flu or virus, can be deadly. They would NOT have died, if they had NOT contracted the flu or virus. The virus isn't the actual thing that killed them. But it was the trigger, the thing that caused "death" to suddenly become a eventual result.

I can't believe that the moderator is continuing to allow this liberal political post. I guess only conservative posts get banned.