R.I.P. Scout26
It was a perfect propaganda storm... The Chinese HAD to have a lot of victims to cover for removing the Hong Kong problem. Everything about it was exaggerated, and we bought it all. I'm still seeing folks wearing multiple masks, and whatever gloves, and side-eyeing everyone they come into contact with. They'll dance around if you sneeze. And St. Louis is a mega allergy place.
This still doesn't make sense to me. China reports 4,636 deaths. In Hong Kong they claim 212 deaths. If their goal was to have "a lot of victims" to cover the murder of dissidents why are they claiming so few deaths?
A friend's mother died with it. She had two types of cancer and MS, and was well over 70, very frail, darn near completely bedridden. Prognosis wasn't good to start with. They think she caught it during a chemo session. If you're not a bedridden octogenarian... then again, the outlier situations make the news. I wonder how many of the younger people who caught it and died were killed by the treatment rather than the bug - From what I read, some patients were put on vents because the facilities thought it was a safety measure for the help regarding filtration of outgoing air... And vents kill the hell out of people. They are very hard to come back from. That's the "scarring and lasting damage" right there.
Young woman at church, has 3 family members (sister, her husband, and her father) hospitalized with teh Covids! now. All 3 in ICU a while, slowly getting better. I think father still is. You see a picture of the family, and they're all beach ball obese. I know the sister is diabetic. Dad has been homebound on disability for a while (the nature of which I do not know). So, yeah, tons of co-morbidities.