85 years is certainly not early! |
| My uncle died of Covid pre vaccines. He was 80 but very healthy and active. |
| I worked with a vendor for my business. He unfortunately died of COVID in his 20s. He did not take the vaccine when it became available; this was back in 2021. It was really sad and awful. |
Another geriatric died? Incredible! |
Lots of people that took that vaccine died of covid nonetheless. |
| When people are that old, pulmonary illnesses are usually fatal. Before you know it, they can cause death rattle, and generally, there is no coming back from that. |
Sure, "lots" if "lots" means 17 times less likely than if you didn't take the vaccine. And that's data before the current boosters. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/united-states-rates-of-covid-19-deaths-by-vaccination-status |
| He was 85! |
| At 85 he lived well over the average age for men. Something had to get him. |
Np. I don't see this as a loss for op. They probably haven't thought of this teacher in years! I do feel sorry for the teacher and his family. |
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I know several elderly people who died during the first year of covid.
Here’s the thing: all of them had underlying conditions…so they were heading in that direction anyway. Covid just accelerated it. Put another way: a healthy person without underlying issues—even if elderly—isn’t likely to die from covid. My parents and in-laws (all of whom are in their 80s) got covid and survived. Nobody landed in the hospital. Why? No underlying health issues. Nobody is overweight. No reactive airway disease. Etc. |
You're broadly correct of course, but please beware of overgeneralizing. Humans of all ages, *seemingly* healthy, have died of Covid. It's rare, but it happens. This is because millions of people walk about right now, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, with underlying disorders they know nothing about. I have a blood clotting disorder, for example, that was only discovered because my child was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease (that has a genetic predisposition) and I thought to get the same bloodwork to check. I have never had symptoms, but it makes me more vulnerable to certain complications. Rapid death due to Covid is associated with an overreaction of the immune systen and a blood clotting issue in target organs. So you don't know, OP, who might be more vulnerable to what. YOU could have an underlying condition you don't know about. |
| Meant PP, sorry. |
The covid vaxxed have lower death rates from non-covid illness too than the unvaxxed. Unless you think that the covid vaccine magically protects against non-covid illness as well, that points to health vaccinee bias; people who get the vaccine have better access to health care, less blue collar employment, higher incomes etc. than the unvaxxed and therefore have better outcomes for covid and non-covid illnesses. There are also statistical biases in US data. If hospitals reported unknown vaccine status for a covid patient, the CDC classified them as unvaxxed; one of the many ways that the tally of unvaxxed infections was boosted in US data. In the UK, 95% of people dying from covid were vaxxed. |
Shut up you subhuman idiot. People lost family members and you go online showing the world you are stupid. Genius |