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I unfortunately finally know someone personally that has died from COVID-19. Here are my thoughts.
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M1chl
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Because you are failing to recognize that in America everything is political statement. I don't know how, but if not for idiots on ERA...Mericans think that "government forcing something on us...so it must be bad", even though normal nation would recognize the danger and for their own good they would have the mask....I cannot imagine that people in USA would set masks for others for free. Maybe for profit, but definitely not for free.
Also shit like this, would not happend everywhere else:
For the contrast this is from my country, which is out of the lockdown for since 11th of May...
And funny thing is, that this was not intended for Czech people, but for other nations, which rides on that illusion, that somewhat free means to be a threat to others...
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12Goblins
Lil’ Gobbie
All this says to me is that you have been brainwashed by partisan propaganda just like the people who are saying all the stupid shit you listed in your post, and now you are trying to blame them for your error in judgment and inability to think critically. The scientific community laid out their concerns, and you dismissed them because you were too involved in bickering with other partisan hacks like yourself, presumably. That's on you. You look long enough at the monster until you become the monster.
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cryptoadam
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Are you taking vitamins and getting some sun? Along with excercise?
Tesseract
Banned
have you read the ipcc reports?
they're a bunch of wealth redistributing losers, manipulating data since the orgs' inception
thankfully, president trump dunked all over them and the goofy paris accords
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Mistake
Member
No vitamins, but I eat pretty healthy. I get enough sun, and I'm working more on exercise. I don't take unnecessary trips out, wash hands, etc etc. I'm doing my best. Stay safe everyone, we'll get through it
DeepBreath87
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So much of this depends on where you live and what you’re doing. Try to pay more attention to your numbers locally or you can get caught up in the media hype. If it seems like there’s a lot of positive cases in your area, take extra precautions, like you’ve been doing. If not, go about your life while still doing the easy stuff. But don’t live in fear. Pay attention and make good decisions.
TyphoonStruggle
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I have a PhD in Sustainable Engineering. My Masters thesis was the technical and economic optimization of a concentrating solar power plant (renewable energy) that implemented a reversible solid-gas thermochemical reaction and simulated using a steady-state thermodynamic model based on the 1st and 2nd laws.
Do I believe in global warming? Yes. Do I believe in anthropogenic climate change? Yes. Do I believe climate change is ending the world in 12 years? No. Do I need the news to tell me how CO2 causes global warming? No, because I took 4 years of chemistry and understand that electrons can be excited to orbits of higher energy after absorption of specific electromagnetic wavelengths.
Please tell me how I'm anti-science and how I can't think critically.
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Elcid
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What’s the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
GAMETA
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Sorry to hear that, man. I had cases in my family too.
My father had it, he's 60. He's now fully recovered and well. Tested negative, no more side effects and tiredness and is positive for anti-bodies. (He did use HCQ in his treatment)
My aunt/godmother, her 2 sons (we are close cousins), her sister in law and family also got it (they are neighbors). She's 72, got into intensive care for 2 weeks and recovered (I'm not sure if 100%). My cousins are 37 and 34, they didn't require ICU but, according to them, felt like shit, both now fully recovered.
I also know of people from work and friends who have had it, some lost older relatives and parents.
This shit is very real and I've been advocating for taking care of yourselves and loved ones and your communities... Maybe you're young and really won't be affected by it, but I don't understand how taking proper care of the community (be it by wearing masks, be it by avoiding big crowds and so on) can be bad and possibly infringe your liberty. I really don't get it.
My father had it, he's 60. He's now fully recovered and well. Tested negative, no more side effects and tiredness and is positive for anti-bodies. (He did use HCQ in his treatment)
My aunt/godmother, her 2 sons (we are close cousins), her sister in law and family also got it (they are neighbors). She's 72, got into intensive care for 2 weeks and recovered (I'm not sure if 100%). My cousins are 37 and 34, they didn't require ICU but, according to them, felt like shit, both now fully recovered.
I also know of people from work and friends who have had it, some lost older relatives and parents.
This shit is very real and I've been advocating for taking care of yourselves and loved ones and your communities... Maybe you're young and really won't be affected by it, but I don't understand how taking proper care of the community (be it by wearing masks, be it by avoiding big crowds and so on) can be bad and possibly infringe your liberty. I really don't get it.
REE Machine
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Yep, if people truly want to help, wear a mask.
Elcid
Banned
I'm pretty sure I caught it in December.
I was in Florida working with a bunch of people that had just gotten back from China and I was warned they had some kinda bad virus.
I spent 2 weeks coughing up my lungs, and on/off fever symptoms/body aches. Coughed till I'm pretty sure I bruised a rib. Doctor told me I had a respiratory infection. I got some prescription strength cough syrup so I could finally sleep since I would fall asleep sitting up coughing up my lungs the next day at 11am-12pm, sometimes even 1pm, still coughing. After a few days of heavily dosed sleep I started recovering. I still let out deep coughs for a few weeks even after though so it took a while to recover 100%.
At this point though, I'm done with this quarantine. I took my family out last night for dinner. I went to the gym. I'm walking my dog (MASKLESS) and hanging out with friends. Sorry for those of you who lost people, but chances are it wasn't covid that killed them. As a few people have said, there's always some other shit in the picture.
If I had to bet, it was likely malpractice more than anything seeing as they've discovered the ventilators are killing people and yet hospitals have been throwing people in ventilators because they make more money if they use ventilators and of course if they claim "covid".
www.reuters.com
I was in Florida working with a bunch of people that had just gotten back from China and I was warned they had some kinda bad virus.
I spent 2 weeks coughing up my lungs, and on/off fever symptoms/body aches. Coughed till I'm pretty sure I bruised a rib. Doctor told me I had a respiratory infection. I got some prescription strength cough syrup so I could finally sleep since I would fall asleep sitting up coughing up my lungs the next day at 11am-12pm, sometimes even 1pm, still coughing. After a few days of heavily dosed sleep I started recovering. I still let out deep coughs for a few weeks even after though so it took a while to recover 100%.
At this point though, I'm done with this quarantine. I took my family out last night for dinner. I went to the gym. I'm walking my dog (MASKLESS) and hanging out with friends. Sorry for those of you who lost people, but chances are it wasn't covid that killed them. As a few people have said, there's always some other shit in the picture.
If I had to bet, it was likely malpractice more than anything seeing as they've discovered the ventilators are killing people and yet hospitals have been throwing people in ventilators because they make more money if they use ventilators and of course if they claim "covid".
Special Report: As virus advances, doctors rethink rush to ventilate
BERLIN (Reuters) - When he was diagnosed with COVID-19, Andre Bergmann knew exactly where he wanted to be treated: the Bethanien hospital lung clinic in Moers, near his home in northwestern Germany.
www.reuters.com
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Hulk_Smash
Banned
I'm pretty sure I caught it in December.
I was in Florida working with a bunch of people that had just gotten back from China and I was warned they had some kinda bad virus.
I spent 2 weeks coughing up my lungs, and on/off fever symptoms/body aches. Coughed till I'm pretty sure I bruised a rib. Doctor told me I had a respiratory infection. I got some prescription strength cough syrup so I could finally sleep since I would fall asleep sitting up coughing up my lungs the next day at 11am-12pm, sometimes even 1pm, still coughing. After a few days of heavily dosed sleep I started recovering. I still let out deep coughs for a few weeks even after though so it took a while to recover 100%.
At this point though, I'm done with this quarantine. I took my family out last night for dinner. I went to the gym. I'm walking my dog (MASKLESS) and hanging out with friends. Sorry for those of you who lost people, but chances are it wasn't covid that killed them. As a few people have said, there's always some other shit in the picture.
If I had to bet, it was likely malpractice more than anything seeing as they've discovered the ventilators are killing people and yet hospitals have been throwing people in ventilators because they make more money if they use ventilators and of course if they claim "covid".
Special Report: As virus advances, doctors rethink rush to ventilate
BERLIN (Reuters) - When he was diagnosed with COVID-19, Andre Bergmann knew exactly where he wanted to be treated: the Bethanien hospital lung clinic in Moers, near his home in northwestern Germany.
I think I had it way back late December early jan too.
Same thing: lots of coughing. A cough that lasted a month. But when my wife caught it, oh man, she had every symptom associated with COVID. Much worse than me.
EverydayBeast
ChatGPT 0.001
Humans have to get some momentum back from COVID none the less may prayers be with you and your neighbor.
Elcid
Banned
Funny my whole household got sick but I got it the worst. I actually avoided seeing coworkers and family minus the ones in my house during that time for the reason that I didn’t want to give anyone whatever the fuck I had.
Bloody hell what is it about Americans that turned a fucking pandemic into "political", this bullshit has seeped into the English flag nonces too. Other countries at least banded together and have got over the worst of it but for some reason, America and some fraction of England believe this is some hoax or political issue. It's almost as bad as the 5G loonies, ignoring science because they read some daft shit on Facebook that pretends to sound smart.
highrider
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I feel like I’m being lied to. Information is compromised and it’s become a political football. I observe all mask regulations, but if I had a choice this would be over. We’ve been past diminishing returns for at least two months. I had two two extended family members in Florida get it, both in their 60s, not unhealthy but not particularly healthy either. Pretty much a flu for the husband, no reaction at all from the wife, she’s a nurse, they think she got it at work. I don’t know what to believe, but I don’t believe what I’m being told at all.
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highrider
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What if you have no conspiracy theory, but you just think you’re being lied to consistently? I think that’s a far bigger category than conspiracy theorists. China actively repressed information and destroyed evidence, probably killed several people as well. That’s an actual conspiracy we should probably address at some point.
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Elcid
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Ay there govenah, these bloody yanks amirite? Why don't we discuss this like a couple blokes over a cup of tea with some crumpets, or perhaps some shrimp on the barbie? Best ya can answer me this mate, why does Sweden not mandate masks? Oh and God save the Queen and all that.
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Mistake
Member
The easiest way to deal with compulsive liars is to just never believe a word that comes out of their mouth
highrider
Banned
Yeah I think most people do that, I’m more trying to hear what a true believer thinks about it though. Generally it’s the oh another crackpot muh freedom guy, but what if you present a more rational position. Hey I don’t know anything about this virus really, but I absolutely know when people are lying to me.
levyjl1988
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Wearing a mask does not eliminate the risk it lowers it. I can see how he must have contracted it.
People breathe through the mask, the virus must have escaped from the sides. Health care worker must have touched their face or something.
Covid-19 is no joke and you have to perceive it as some form of airborne pathogen and take all the precautions.
Most of these guidelines are bullshit. Whether it be droplets or whatever, imagine it has a reach 3x that. The minimum of 6 feet is just not enough.
People caught covid-19 in the diamond princess through ventilation. And there was a case where people perpendicular to and air conditioner had the virus flow between tables.
Wherever someone is breathing he is most likely carrying that virus around through a puff of air and just breathing it In is dangerous.
People breathe through the mask, the virus must have escaped from the sides. Health care worker must have touched their face or something.
Covid-19 is no joke and you have to perceive it as some form of airborne pathogen and take all the precautions.
Most of these guidelines are bullshit. Whether it be droplets or whatever, imagine it has a reach 3x that. The minimum of 6 feet is just not enough.
People caught covid-19 in the diamond princess through ventilation. And there was a case where people perpendicular to and air conditioner had the virus flow between tables.
Wherever someone is breathing he is most likely carrying that virus around through a puff of air and just breathing it In is dangerous.
joe_zazen
Member
political parties weaponizing human psychology and events to gain power without regard for honesty or long term consequences.
So, either you are a dupe or you understand this and you become a cynic who doesn't believe anything. It is messed up.
Soodanim
Member
Has anyone that thinks masks are useless not taken a moment to watch a single video or experiment proving they massively reduce the distance the contents of a cough/sneeze?
Shrimp on the barbie is Aussie.
Sweden not doing it misses is such an empty statement. It lacks any reasoning either way. Maybe they're not a very densely populated country. Maybe they're good at social distancing. I don't know the answer, but when you have states in America and other countries that have shot way up, the whole "Just let it run" thing doesn't work.
Shrimp on the barbie is Aussie.
LisaMariaMartin
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sorry for your loss op.
To think all this bullshit could have been avoided if China had just reacted properly in the initial stages....
To think all this bullshit could have been avoided if China had just reacted properly in the initial stages....
lock2k
Banned
I legit thought a friend of mine, who is 34, was not going to get through this. He was hospitalized and had his lungs compromised but thankfully he got through it. Scary as fuck. I was glad to see him alive and well afterwards.
V4skunk
Banned
You don't get a fever from covid19.
You literally can't breath......It feels like you stuck on mount Everest or some high mountain. Pulmonary edema!
You are another victim of the tv programming / brainwashing.
lock2k
Banned
This friend of mine who was in the hospital had severe fevers all the time.
V4skunk
Banned
But he had no problems breathing right? No pulmonary edema?
You are all dumb fucks brainwashed by the fake news.
lock2k
Banned
Of course he had, and why the fuck are you cursing me? Calm the fuck down.
Cycom
Banned
Nice straw man, fool. Bringing in the Holocaust really stepped up the retardation.
John Mullins
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Alzheimer's and about to go into a care home? That's the end of his natural life so this was a blessing in disguise.
You'd like to last a bit more than 78 maybe, but it's not a bad age. Eeking out more years not even recognizing your own family, having someone else feed and clean you? Fuck that.
You'd like to last a bit more than 78 maybe, but it's not a bad age. Eeking out more years not even recognizing your own family, having someone else feed and clean you? Fuck that.
bigsnack
Member
I have to agree with this. I visited my grandmother only once when she first entered a home (also with Alzheimer's), and I vowed never to go again. I didn't want my memories of her overrun by the crazy lady next to her, and her looking through me and not at me.
HawksWinStanley
Member
Meh, all you're going to see posted around here are the videos of people using CO2 monitors while wearing a mask and claiming the CO2 will build up and kill you.
Hulk_Smash
Banned
I agree. Alzheimer’s sucks. It is the worst way to spend your final years. The family is relieved more than anything. But the funeral plans are what makes this more difficult. Doesn’t give the family closure.
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Elcid
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Well then you also have a problem with the numbers being reported, which have already been proven to be inflated AND they have a reason to!
Coronavirus update: Florida labs not reporting negative test results, report says
Incomplete reporting from some Florida laboratories resulted in errors on the state’s report on virus positivity rates, according to a central Florida news outlet.
www.foxnews.com
One in 3 death certificates were wrong before coronavirus. It's about to get even worse.
One in three death certificates were wrong before COVID-19, expert says. The pandemic will make it worse, thwarting the quest for an accurate death toll.
www.usatoday.com
Hospital Payments and the COVID-19 Death Count - FactCheck.org
Q: Are hospitals inflating the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths so they can be paid more? A: Recent legislation pays hospitals higher Medicare rates for COVID-19 patients and treatment, but there is no evidence of fraudulent reporting. FULL QUESTION Are hospitals getting 13,000 per patient if...
www.factcheck.org
"It is true, however, that the government will pay more to hospitals for COVID-19 cases in two senses: By paying an additional 20% on top of traditional Medicare rates for COVID-19 patients during the public health emergency, and by reimbursing hospitals for treating the uninsured patients with the disease (at that enhanced Medicare rate)."
And to your last point...
that's part of the joke
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Biff
Member
EviLore
can we please have a "COVID conspiracies go here and nowhere else" thread.Look at the nuts in this thread saying COVID is a hoax, the death count is fake, just big pharma making money. Oh it's not at the hospital in my backwoods cousin-fucking part of 'Murica so it's fake duh.
What the FUCK? Big pharma worth billions has the power to shut down an economy worth trillions? lmao
Complete dumpster fire ITT. Jesus Christ.
Elcid
Banned
I know right? These fucking idiots and their
Look at the nuts in this thread saying COVID is a hoax, the death count is fake, just big pharma making money. Oh it's not at the hospital in my backwoods cousin-fucking part of 'Murica so it's fake duh.
What the FUCK? Big pharma worth billions has the power to shut down an economy worth trillions? lmao
Complete dumpster fire ITT. Jesus Christ.
facts
Oh one more for you clever boys <3.
'We see no point in wearing a face mask,' Sweden's top virus expert says as he touts the country's improving COVID numbers
Since hitting a peak in late June, Sweden's COVID-19 infection rate has fallen sharply in recent weeks. And that’s amid an increase in testing over the period.
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Soodanim
Member
It's a shame that America's health care system is so bad. This seems like the inevitable result of that. Hospitals lying because health care is all about the bottom line.Well then you also have a problem with the numbers being reported, which have already been proven to be inflated AND they have a reason to!
Coronavirus update: Florida labs not reporting negative test results, report says
Incomplete reporting from some Florida laboratories resulted in errors on the state’s report on virus positivity rates, according to a central Florida news outlet.One in 3 death certificates were wrong before coronavirus. It's about to get even worse.
One in three death certificates were wrong before COVID-19, expert says. The pandemic will make it worse, thwarting the quest for an accurate death toll.www.usatoday.comHospital Payments and the COVID-19 Death Count - FactCheck.org
Q: Are hospitals inflating the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths so they can be paid more? A: Recent legislation pays hospitals higher Medicare rates for COVID-19 patients and treatment, but there is no evidence of fraudulent reporting. FULL QUESTION Are hospitals getting 13,000 per patient if...
"It is true, however, that the government will pay more to hospitals for COVID-19 cases in two senses: By paying an additional 20% on top of traditional Medicare rates for COVID-19 patients during the public health emergency, and by reimbursing hospitals for treating the uninsured patients with the disease (at that enhanced Medicare rate)."
And to your last point...that's part of the joke
oh god, this thread.
The thing that fucks me up most about "new GAF" since the reee-purge iis the ammount of incels ("Why do women cover their cleavage if I look?") and butthurt whining about Covid tlike this. Dudes are you aware that his crisis for most of us is still a first-world-problem? A small inconvenience? Do you really have to cling to any agenda/theory/worldview that lets you do absolutley nothing, change nothing, blame everyone but you - just to feed good about yourself? Pathetic.
And in the other forum there is a neverending circlejerk about what YouTuber is not cool anymore and how game/person/event XYZ hurt someones feelings.
Fuck... I want old GAF back. The new internet sucks. And I blame YOU, not me! ;-)
The thing that fucks me up most about "new GAF" since the reee-purge iis the ammount of incels ("Why do women cover their cleavage if I look?") and butthurt whining about Covid tlike this. Dudes are you aware that his crisis for most of us is still a first-world-problem? A small inconvenience? Do you really have to cling to any agenda/theory/worldview that lets you do absolutley nothing, change nothing, blame everyone but you - just to feed good about yourself? Pathetic.
And in the other forum there is a neverending circlejerk about what YouTuber is not cool anymore and how game/person/event XYZ hurt someones feelings.
Fuck... I want old GAF back. The new internet sucks. And I blame YOU, not me! ;-)
Zog
Banned
We're all wearing masks whether we like it or not. You may like it, I don't. The effectiveness of the masks is in question and it seems like corporations and governments are requiring masks just because it's the popular thing to do.
Mohonky
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TyphoonStruggle
Member
I wear masks every time I leave my house. Doesn’t mean I’m okay with forcing others to wear masks if they don’t want to. That’s the difference between pro-liberty and pro-fascism.
Socrates was right about people.
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Hulk_Smash
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OP here: Some of ya'll arguing over masks and whatnot- did you read my entire post? I said I wore the mask. For the past two weeks every time I was in a store or out in public, I wore the mask. I STILL got sick with a cold. My entire family got sick. The mask (including social distancing, limiting contact) didn't stop shit. Too many people are wearing the masks improperly to make a bit of difference. Too many are ignoring social distancing for it to make a bit of difference.
Like it or not, we will have to let this virus run its course. You cannot stop it. Professional nurses following protocol STILL got my neighbor sick with COVID. Both his son and his daughter-in-law are pharmacists so they are not ignorant to what's going on and how to follow medical procedures. They know you cannot stop this virus.
Slowing the spread of COVID was suppose to be for the following:
1. To make sure all medical professionals had access to PPE and other supplies and tools they needed.
2. So we wouldn't run out of hospital beds.
3. To buy time to come up with a treatment(s) to those who are at-risk.
Guess what? We did all that. Mission accomplished. Time to go back to work. Let businesses and families handle shit their own way. If you want to wear a mask? Go ahead, knock yourself out. Don't want to wear a mask? Then don't wear one. Run a business and want to require mask wearing? No one should stop you. Don't want to require patrons to wear a mask inside your office? Up to you. Your stuff. Your property.
Because, at the end of the day, life is about mitigating risks. You risk your life and the lives of others every time you drive a car with passengers in it. Just like you can't just stop driving, you can't stop or slow down our economy and social activities just because people who are at-risk the most, like my neighbor, might catch it and might die. He died. It sucks. But, like I said in the OP, he died with a HOST of other major medical problems. Anything could have tipped him over the edge.
And I have a feeling most COVID deaths are like that.
Like it or not, we will have to let this virus run its course. You cannot stop it. Professional nurses following protocol STILL got my neighbor sick with COVID. Both his son and his daughter-in-law are pharmacists so they are not ignorant to what's going on and how to follow medical procedures. They know you cannot stop this virus.
Slowing the spread of COVID was suppose to be for the following:
1. To make sure all medical professionals had access to PPE and other supplies and tools they needed.
2. So we wouldn't run out of hospital beds.
3. To buy time to come up with a treatment(s) to those who are at-risk.
Guess what? We did all that. Mission accomplished. Time to go back to work. Let businesses and families handle shit their own way. If you want to wear a mask? Go ahead, knock yourself out. Don't want to wear a mask? Then don't wear one. Run a business and want to require mask wearing? No one should stop you. Don't want to require patrons to wear a mask inside your office? Up to you. Your stuff. Your property.
Because, at the end of the day, life is about mitigating risks. You risk your life and the lives of others every time you drive a car with passengers in it. Just like you can't just stop driving, you can't stop or slow down our economy and social activities just because people who are at-risk the most, like my neighbor, might catch it and might die. He died. It sucks. But, like I said in the OP, he died with a HOST of other major medical problems. Anything could have tipped him over the edge.
And I have a feeling most COVID deaths are like that.
Zog
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Yeah when Wal Mart did it, everyone else jumped on board.
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