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> Compare that to now, where Covid can destroy your life and you can get it just going to the grocery store...it's much worse.

The chance of dying from COVID is 4/100,000 if you're 80 years old and fully vaccinated [1]. HIV, by contrast, was a death sentence regardless of age. Before COVID vaccines were available, sure, you could compare the pandemics; nowadays, the two situations are not comparable.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/data-revie...



You don't need to die for covid to destroy your life https://www.cpr.org/2023/02/03/colorado-long-covid-report/


Do we know yet how much of long covid cases are psychosomatic? Only women seem to get it...




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