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ramblerman

I think we should present the facts we have. Your handwaving this away with unfactual info is worse imo.

> There are still lots of people under 50 getting it.

Getting it perhaps, but only 0.8% of deaths in Italy were under 50. [1]

[1] https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Report-C...

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Exactly. What's up with all this nonsense that we should hide or suppress facts.

We can't make intelligent decisions without knowing them.

The thing is, that is Italy and arguably in the US, there are more people under 50 with serious health problems; diabetes is wide spread as just one example. I believe Italy had a much higher smoking rate someone in their 80s there could have very weak lungs, again the US profile could be different.

Headline: "COVID-19: Millennials can and are falling seriously sick from coronavirus, says new data"

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/covid-19-millennials-can...

You don’t think a country where people wear masks to cope with the smog might have existing respiratory comorbidities?

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