Obviously when people use "one finger" microwave "smart phone" rage algorithms then it is inevitable to be brainwashed on the interwebs. But throw in the "ageism" factor whereby targeting the elderly for an earlier death has become a multi-billion business - then COVID suddenly is a "myth" with the elderly simply succumbing to normal diseases. This of course is the opposite of the truth - a total lie that is easy to maintain since the elderly don't dominate the interwebs.
Adults over 65 years of age represent 80% of hospitalizations and have a 23-fold greater risk of death than those under 65.Why does COVID-19 disproportionately affect older people?
Comorbidities such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity increase the chances of fatal disease, but they alone do not explain why age is an independent risk factor.
the virus spreads to the back of the nasal passages, where it binds to and enters via the dimerized angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) [7] on the surface of airway epithelial cells [8]. From there, it spreads to the mucous membranes of the throat and bronchial tubes, eventually entering the lungs
GINGER BLOCKS THE ACE2 receptor - that's why it's such an effective natural anti-viral.
Even if viral loads decline in the patient, a type of cytokine release syndrome can rapidly develop, characterized by disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), causing liver damage, renal dysfunction, cardiovascular inflammation, coagulopathy and death [13, 14]. There are very few studies that definitely connect the known mechanisms of aging to the pathogenesis of viruses. In this perspective, we offer potential mechanistic explanations as to why COVID-19 advances in some people and not others, and especially in older patients, including differences in the immune system, glycation, the epigenome, inflammasome activity, and biological age.
81% of COVID deaths were the elderly in 2020
Older adults made up 90% of US COVID deaths in 2023
We report sometimes surprising findings on population fatality rates (“PFR”), the ratio of COVID to non-COVID deaths, reported as a percentage, which we call the “Covid Mortality Percentage,” and mean life expectancy loss (“LEL”).
Although COVID-19 mortality was much higher for the elderly, the COVID Mortality Percentage [The ratio of COVID to non-COVID deaths] over the full pandemic period was only modestly higher for the elderly, at 13.2%, than for non-elderly adults aged 25–64, at 11.1%. Indeed, in 2021, this ratio was lower for the elderly than for the middle-aged, reflecting higher elderly vaccination rates.
So this is a very fascinating result - since older people die at a much higher rate overall then even though 80% to 90% of COVID deaths were the elderly, their death rate overall in relation to death from other factors was about the same as the general population of non-elderly.
By year-end 2021, about 825,000 Americans had died of COVID-19.1 Of these, 615,000 (75%) were elderly (persons aged 65+). The number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 during 2020 and 2021 trailed only those due to cancer and heart disease
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