A Family Friend recently passed away due to COVID

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....the News hit us all like a punch in the throat.

He was in his early 50s & left behind a wife and 3 children.

I was told he was in a coma for over 2 months, didn't come out of it & the Doctor advised the family that he be taken off of life support.

Apparently one of his lungs collapsed and his heart had basically stopped functioning.

So Naysayers in this forum...do not take this illness lightly. It is lethal.

It is NOT the seasonal flu nor the common cold.

You can die or at very least be disabled for life.
 
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Joe, you already posted this tale 2/3 weeks ago on VF......

Enough with the Covid fear porn propaganda ffs.

No, back then, He was still alive but in a coma.

Now he is no longer.

This happened in less than 2 months from the time he entered the hospital.

So jus wanted to update you.

Mainly as a reminder not to take this virus or the illnesses it may cause, lightly.
 

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Here have a cookie joe

feel better now?

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Let's just ignore all the poor bastards dead or permanently disabled due to influenza.

Sorry for your Joe, truly.

Please stop making light of the flu. When influenza was novel, it was deadlier than Corona. In fact we are adjusting pretty quickly compared to the flu. I know it sucks....not minimizing anything. This is nature......she's a cruel bitch.
 

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I am glad I have gotten my first jab and will get the second on the 3rd.
 
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Was your friend a Liberal, Joe?

Actually, he was working class God Fearing Catholic Worshipping Latino Immigrant.

...By any chance, Know of any, Bigly?
was he a liberal?

I don't know.

All I know is He was the main breadwinner in a working class Immigrant Family.
His wife made a living selling makeup for Avon.
But she's sidelined after she got COVID as well.

The family is devastated because with the loss of the parents' meagre incomes, they have 3 children in their household, one of them younger than 10.
 
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Let's just ignore all the poor bastards dead or permanently disabled due to influenza.

Sorry for your Joe, truly.

Please stop making light of the flu. When influenza was novel, it was deadlier than Corona. In fact we are adjusting pretty quickly compared to the flu. I know it sucks....not minimizing anything. This is nature......she's a cruel bitch.

COVID killed nearly 10 times the number of people in the United States last year than influenza, Dovey.

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This was according to the Center for Disease Control in your country.

More people died in a single year from COVID in the United States in 2020 than American soldiers who died in 4 years on the battlefield during World War II.
 

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I honestly doubt that is true wet influenza and covid. Many of the symptoms are similar as are the methods of transmission. If one is being transmitted then so is the other. Unfortunately, hospitals only get bonus cash if they say it is covid. They don't get the pay day of bonus cash payments if it is the flu. Thus they are wrongly blaming every single death on covid which they can.

It simply defies logic that flu is down 90%+ but covid is surging as the vectors are identical. So it is very fair to suspect a financial conflict of interests is at play here.
 

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I honestly doubt that is true wet influenza and covid. Many of the symptoms are similar as are the methods of transmission. If one is being transmitted then so is the other. Unfortunately, hospitals only get bonus cash if they say it is covid. They don't get the pay day of bonus cash payments if it is the flu. Thus they are wrongly blaming every single death on covid which they can.

It simply defies logic that flu is down 90%+ but covid is surging as the vectors are identical. So it is very fair to suspect a financial conflict of interests is at play here.
No, it doesn't defy logic..
Many people, like myself
who never got the Flu vaccine
got it this year for obvious reason.

Also, and as importantly
. the Flu, which is less transmissible than Sars Cov2
was tamped down by social distancing and mask wearing.

.You got to think, lil feller
Quit being a Con and see with clarity.
 

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You probably got sick from picking your nose after de-hooking one of those dirty little fishies you catch in that polluted slough over by your house.
 
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I honestly doubt that is true wet influenza and covid. Many of the symptoms are similar as are the methods of transmission. If one is being transmitted then so is the other. Unfortunately, hospitals only get bonus cash if they say it is covid. They don't get the pay day of bonus cash payments if it is the flu. Thus they are wrongly blaming every single death on covid which they can.

It simply defies logic that flu is down 90%+ but covid is surging as the vectors are identical. So it is very fair to suspect a financial conflict of interests is at play here.
No, it doesn't defy logic..
Many people, like myself
who never got the Flu vaccine
got it this year for obvious reason.

Also, and as importantly
. the Flu, which is less transmissible than Sars Cov2
was tamped down by social distancing and mask wearing.

.You got to think, lil feller
Quit being a Con and see with clarity.

I'm not sure why many here perceive COVID as a political disease - that somehow if you wear that RED MAGA hat, it makes you more invincible or less vulnerable against the disease than someone who identifies with BLM or ANTIFA.

Likewise, Cancer can strike people of any age whether they are young, old, Black, White, Asian, Brown, American Indian...and on all 5 or 6 continents.

COVID is just a disease which doesn't recognize any of these artifical social boundaries us humans impose on ourselves or others.

Covid doesn't care who you are. It doesn't even care if you're an important person or have lots of money.
 

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I honestly doubt that is true wet influenza and covid. Many of the symptoms are similar as are the methods of transmission. If one is being transmitted then so is the other. Unfortunately, hospitals only get bonus cash if they say it is covid. They don't get the pay day of bonus cash payments if it is the flu. Thus they are wrongly blaming every single death on covid which they can.

It simply defies logic that flu is down 90%+ but covid is surging as the vectors are identical. So it is very fair to suspect a financial conflict of interests is at play here.
No, it doesn't defy logic..
Many people, like myself
who never got the Flu vaccine
got it this year for obvious reason.

Also, and as importantly
. the Flu, which is less transmissible than Sars Cov2
was tamped down by social distancing and mask wearing.

.You got to think, lil feller
Quit being a Con and see with clarity.

I'm not sure why many here perceive COVID as a political disease - that somehow if you wear that RED MAGA hat, it makes you more invincible or less vulnerable against the disease than someone who identifies with BLM or ANTIFA.

Likewise, Cancer can strike people of any age whether they are young, old, Black, White, Asian, Brown, American Indian...and on all 5 or 6 continents.

COVID is just a disease which doesn't recognize any of these artifical social boundaries us humans impose on ourselves or others.

Covid doesn't care who you are. It doesn't even care if you're an important person or have lots of money.
Viruses are the undead (nor the living), Joe.
Mindless killing machines.
 

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My Cousin, is slow improving but still having fairly serious symptoms that come and go, Cuz has been suffering long hauler syndrome for almost a year, a very rough year.
 

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....the News hit us all like a punch in the throat.

He was in his early 50s & left behind a wife and 3 children.

I was told he was in a coma for over 2 months, didn't come out of it & the Doctor advised the family that he be taken off of life support.

Apparently one of his lungs collapsed and his heart had basically stopped functioning.

So Naysayers in this forum...do not take this illness lightly. It is lethal.

It is NOT the seasonal flu nor the common cold.

You can die or at very least be disabled for life.

Wow. That's sad. So sorry.
 

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I honestly doubt that is true wet influenza and covid. Many of the symptoms are similar as are the methods of transmission. If one is being transmitted then so is the other. Unfortunately, hospitals only get bonus cash if they say it is covid. They don't get the pay day of bonus cash payments if it is the flu. Thus they are wrongly blaming every single death on covid which they can.

It simply defies logic that flu is down 90%+ but covid is surging as the vectors are identical. So it is very fair to suspect a financial conflict of interests is at play here.

Who said flu was down 90%?
 

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I honestly doubt that is true wet influenza and covid. Many of the symptoms are similar as are the methods of transmission. If one is being transmitted then so is the other. Unfortunately, hospitals only get bonus cash if they say it is covid. They don't get the pay day of bonus cash payments if it is the flu. Thus they are wrongly blaming every single death on covid which they can.

It simply defies logic that flu is down 90%+ but covid is surging as the vectors are identical. So it is very fair to suspect a financial conflict of interests is at play here.
No, it doesn't defy logic..
Many people, like myself
who never got the Flu vaccine
got it this year for obvious reason.

Also, and as importantly
. the Flu, which is less transmissible than Sars Cov2
was tamped down by social distancing and mask wearing.

.You got to think, lil feller
Quit being a Con and see with clarity.

OK, I guess we can empirically test that hypothesis by comparing influenza shots administered in the US during 2019 vs 2020. Any idea where to find the data?
 

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Well. we just heard my wife's ex-husband has covid and is apparently not doing well. I've never met the guy, I know he and my wife got divorced because he was a serial cheater and my wife came home from her law office early one night and found him fucking the nanny. Supposedly, he has largely been an absentee father to the two boys though he always paid his child support (until this last year) and his extended family was reportedly always nice to the boys. The older boy knows his dad even if he only saw him a few times per year while the younger boy only knows him from pictures and the odd once or twice a year phone call.

Its hard to feel bad for the bastard though I don't want anyone to die and I mostly am just concerned how it would effect my two stepsons. I know the older one is quite concerned.
 

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Well. we just heard my wife's ex-husband has covid and is apparently not doing well. I've never met the guy, I know he and my wife got divorced because he was a serial cheater and my wife came home from her law office early one night and found him fucking the nanny. Supposedly, he has largely been an absentee father to the two boys though he always paid his child support (until this last year) and his extended family was reportedly always nice to the boys. The older boy knows his dad even if he only saw him a few times per year while the younger boy only knows him from pictures and the odd once or twice a year phone call.

Its hard to feel bad for the bastard though I don't want anyone to die and I mostly am just concerned how it would effect my two stepsons. I know the older one is quite concerned.

That Karma is a bitch!

I feel for the kids though.