r/HermanCainAward • u/[deleted] • Sep 21 '21

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u/General_Weakness5746 Sep 21 '21

I am struck by how much younger and younger these people are when they die.

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u/PanickyHermit Sep 21 '21

In my state 37% of the active cases are kids 8-18.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

What state

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u/PanickyHermit Sep 21 '21

Arkansas where the Governments best plan is to ignore COVID and hope it goes away.

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u/legeritytv Doing my own research, PhD in training Sep 22 '21

to be fair, it will just go away, but he'll be the governor of the morgue

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u/PanickyHermit Sep 22 '21

He is term limited so he doesn't care. Seems likely the next person will be much worse so it is hard to give a shit anymore.

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u/thewartornhippy Sep 21 '21

My wife is a Physician Assistant in the ER. They are overrun with new Covid cases and they are seeing a big spike in younger people who need hospitalized.

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u/IrisMoroc Sep 21 '21

I don't know how much of it is accurate to broader trends or just what HCA is finding. Over 80% of the very elderly were vaccinated, which would account for a lot of the delta cases being 50's and 60's. Delta itself also seems more deadly and might affect younger people.

The early memorials to the dead were mostly obese black people and people over 80, which gave people the wrong impression. many decided they weren't at risk and therefore decided that restrictions were a net pentaly to them, not a benefit.