to name calling and bullying... ;-). I'm in a cohort that can die anyday (as we all are, in actuality)....I appreciate the nice stories about your family.., may you and I live as long as God will allow...
to be fair, it's a bit of an emotional response to say that my comments are "writing people off". Older and sick people do die, and the vast majority dying of COVID do not have 10, 20 or 30 years to live as you say... The average age of death of COVID is 74 which is just a year or two below the average age of death due to all other causes (76)... so it's not a stretch to say that this is a disease of the sick and elderly, and saying so, doesn't make someone a non-caring individual or conspiracy theorist...
I would give you a different postulate....as a community of believers, is it right to make sure we can squeeze every last heart beat out of our our elderly, where we already spend an inordinate percentage of health care costs, when countless others in our community don't have basic needs...?
I see this with my liberal friends, who are willing to make 95% of the population sacrifice (in some cases everything) to make sure we protect the 5% or less truly susceptible to this disease. This is actually a selfish position under the guise of magnanimity.
So I'm elderly, and I want to hold 10M kids out of school just in CA alone, 10M kids who will never get those years back in socialization and education, 10M parents who had to leave/lose their jobs just so I can assure that the most susceptible in our population doesn't succumb to this illness....? 6 kids under the age of 18 have died of COVID in CA....6....so the isolation and lockdowns are in order to prevent secondary spread to those at risk....many see this as an appropriate trade off...I don't.....we just disagree on this as I do with many of my colleagues...
My point in my past posts is simply that using the cause of death tally due to COVID, which is being paraded daily as a fear-mongering warning to all, is poorly understood and absolutely being over-reported. Hospitals do not do cause of death analysis well...
by the way, regarding your post below, the Spanish flu infected 500M and killed 50M, indiscriminate of age....there's no comparison with COVID