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Comment by kylebenzle | Hacker News Reader

People keep forgetting that the vast majority of people under 45 that get in never have any idea that even had it and over 97% of deaths are people over 45.

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Some of us are over 45. Some of us have regular contact with people over 45. Some of us know people who've died of COVID who are under 45.

Not trying to be snarky, but just curious: do you know anyone under 45 who has died from it?

I know someone who is under 45 who got it & had to be put on a ventilator. It was close, and thankfully, she made it.

(I also know someone else under 45 who got it, and was symptomatic.)

People keep forgetting that death is not the only effect this virus has and many of the side effects afterwards are quite bad.

There have been more than a few cases with people losing taste/smell, heart and lung damage that may be permanent, and other nasty effects that we are still learning about, truly heartbreaking stuff when it is young people who were training for or attempting to become high performance athletes their entire lives just to have it stripped away because of this virus.

Yes. Fuck all those guys over 45. How dare they continue living.

In reality it's more like over 80. Yes the incidence of severe cases does go up with age, but it's the very elderly who are most at risk. I'm 54, I had it, and it was a couple of days of slight nasal congestion and a very mild sore throat. If it had been any other year I wouldn't have paid it any mind at all and would have probably attributed it to the dry winter air.

My dad is in his 50s and he was in the hospital for a week near death on a ventilator. I know within 2 degrees of separation at least 6 people who have died. All were in their 50s and 60s. How they commit the crime of being older.

Who the hell do you think looks after the old and vulnerable? Mostly the under 45s! Therefore the under 45s should really be making sure they don't get it.

People keep forgetting that mortality isn't the only side-effect of this disease.

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