{"id":73970,"date":"2020-05-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73970"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:06:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:06:40","slug":"one-of-the-greatest-deceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73970","title":{"rendered":"One Of The Greatest Deceptions…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

…of the current crisis, is the perception that Big Left is pushing, that Covid can kill anyone, at any time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, just so we’re clear: I’ve got a parent in assisted living. I’ve got people in my close circle with immune issues and serious lung issues. I was working from home before it was mandatory, and for good reason. I have people in my life who are <\/em>vulnerable, and for whom Covid is most assuredly not <\/em>“just like flu”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as to the rest of the population?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vast majority – as in, super-super-super-majority – of those in NYC with cases serious enough to require hospitalization had more than one comorbid condition<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health records showed that 94% of the 5,700 patients in the Northwell Health system \u2014 which has had the most patients in the country during the pandemic \u2014 had at least one disease other than COVID-19, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. 88% had more than one ailment on top of coronavirus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It wasn’t even close to close to close:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I saw video last week of a New York hospital celebrating the release of its 750th Covid survivor<\/a>. And, with all due respect for ordeal and in many cases their age, none of them looked like they’d been pictures of clean health in general Not mocking, and certainly not pretending to be a doctor – but the numbers bear out the observation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…of the current crisis, is the perception that Big Left is pushing, that Covid can kill anyone, at any time. Now, just so we’re clear: I’ve got a parent in assisted living. I’ve got people in my close circle with immune issues and serious lung issues. I was working from home before it was mandatory, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-73970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73972,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73970\/revisions\/73972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}