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Interesting to see what the deaths with number/type of comorbidities were by age as well. Of the 7,463 58 year olds who died with covid, how many had zero comorbidities associated with poor outcomes from Covid-19? How many were obese, T2D, heart disease, fatty liver disease, cancer, etc

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Thank you! Perspective is everything.

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Awesome

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What do a lot of those over 65's with the higher death rate, have in common? Yes... they are people who have had flu vaccinations. The death rate increases with age and must be strongly correlated to the number of flu vaccinations a person has had. OK, older people are supposed to have lower immunity but what if previous flu vaccinations have had a detrimental effect when fighting covid?

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This is all well and good, but the age table is what I refer to as 'comorbidity-agnostic'.

Relevant comorbidities are things associated with metabolic dysregulation and systemic inflammation: (hyper-)obesity; diabetes with complications; chronic kidney disease; Vitamin D deficiency.

If you're a 56 year old male with zero relevant comorbidities, your risk of death from COVID19 is as near to zero as makes no odds. (I have long made it my business to know my 10-year mortality risk, and to do what I can to reduce it: there is zero risk-reduction for me in the Pfizer-payday jab, if one considers the historical level of outright dishonesty in Pfizer's research output).

When I see Karens with a BMI in the high 30s wearing face masks, I stifle a little chuckle and think "If she'd spent the last 20 months losing 20kg, her odds would be better than wearing a mouth-burqa".

It's really interesting that diabetes *without* complications seems be neutral with respect to mortality risk: it points to the culprit being damage to, e.g., the endothelial glycocalyx (interior to the epithelial layer in the vascular system).

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5) what's the absolute yearly risk of dying of bacterial meningitis? and tetanus? higher or lower than COVID-19? and yet, those are vaccinations recommended to the general population. how come?

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4) looking at your numbers, for anybody over 44 years the risk of dying of COVID would be 10% of all causes of deaths or more. ALL causes of death, including cancer, heart disease, car accidents, suicide... you looked these numbers up, you wrote them in your post and you ended up recommending the vaccine only to >65 years old? what's your problem?

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3) the COVID-related death risk in the timeframe you chose is the risk of dying of COVID when people was protected by NPI and, in 2021, vaccines. thanks to these measures, just a fraction of US citizen contracted COVID. if nobody vaccinated rates would be much higher.

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2) if you're talking about younger person, you should'nt concentrate on the risk of death but on the risk of hospitalization in a IT unit, which is significatively higher.

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so if you're 35 years old and I tell you: take this shot and your risk of choking on food will decrease by >90%, your answer would be 'naaaaaah'. and if dying in a pedestrian accident was such a risible problem why not legalizing jaywalking?

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When you adjust for all the deaths that were attributed to covid that shouldn't have been (about 90%), the stats are even better.

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This is great if death is all that is feared. How about long covid?

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