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THE VIRUS DOES NOT KILL JUST OLD PEOPLE.
It kills those with medical conditions and the overweight.
It kills random healthy, younger, people.

What if it kills you? Your spouse? Your child? 
There are confirmed deaths in every single age category.

I support a very careful opening, naturally, since there is no other economic option, but PLEASE DO NOT BE DISMISSIVE OF THE RISK.

Call your elected representatives to continue to invest in PPE for all, and aid to facilitate contactless technology for all businesses, and INVEST IN MORE TESTS AND TRACING.

Soon we will enter the second phase of the pandemic: opening followed by the second surge. Continue to be very cautious.

In 1-2 years, there will be a vaccine. I hope it works well (vaccines vary in their efficacy). Until then, we cannot count on this pandemic to just fizzle out by itself. We have to learn to live with our new hygiene and physical distancing lifestyle for a while.

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It kinda does just kill old people.  90% of Maryland deaths are 60 and older.  While I don't think 60 is that old, it is almost exclusively killing older people. 7% are people over 50.  So, 3% of the deaths are under 50.  We cannot pretend that it doesn't kill predominantly older people.  The data is clear.  [/quote]

Agreed. Shouting that the virus just doesn't kill old people is about as relevant as shouting that the flu doesn't just kill old people. Young people have died of the flu too, and based on the antibody data the virus is barely more lethal than the regular flu to the sub 50 population. The media overhypes every younger death but in reality it's incredibly rare. It's about as rare or even rarer than dying in a car accident as a young person. Or a heart attack in an otherwise healthy 40 year old man. Even among older people, the fatality rate is very closely associated with existing health problems. A healthy person in their 70s or 80s without the common comorbidities found in most COVID-19 victims has a very low death rate. The young deaths almost all had existing health problems too. [/quote]

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