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I don't think such a distinction can usefully be made? And we don't do it for other things. "Road traffic accident with diabetes"?



Apples and oranges. There is no evidence that having diabetes significantly increases the risk of a traffic accident, but plenty of evidence that having diabetes increases the risk of dying from COVID-19.


It could help develop a strategy and protocol for opening the economy if it mostly of greatly affects people with identifiable preëxisting conditions.


So, "they were going to die anyway." This just in: we're all going to die anyway.

When you're lying on your deathbed drowning in the effluvia of necrotic lung tissue at least you can rest easy in the knowledge that your humanity didn't count and you're just a statistic, but at least you helped a wealthy person avoid not making as much money as he could have.


That’s not it. You develop a protocol to avoid as much as possible exposing those who are susceptible to the disease if that can be determined.

If we know that one part of the population can withstand the disease well and another is susceptible to it we can develop ways to navigate that.




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