[FRIAM] Virus Cases

[Barry MacKichan]

To add a couple of data points to our anecdotal database:

A teenage daughter of one of my daughter’s coworkers has COVID-19. For 
some sort of comparison, I knew one person who died on 9/11. He was the 
boss of an ex-son-in-law in a internet financial information startup 
that folded in the dotcom crash. 9/11 was his first day at his new job.

—Barry

On 27 Jun 2020, at 13:42, Marcus Daniels wrote:

>  knew one person that died in a car accident.  I know one person who 
> was shot but survived.  I know of people that have killed themselves, 
> but not personally.   I know of one person in a nursing home that 
> died from COVID-19.    It took many years for me to learn of the 
> former cases, but less than a year to learn of the COVID-19 death.   
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> But I know a number of people that have some combination of risk 
> factors:  impaired endothelial function (e.g. hypertension), older 
> than 56, who have lived with polluted air for many years, are packed 
> tightly with neighbors in an apartment building, who are overweight, 
> who don’t or can’t exercise, and who have cancer or diabetes. 
>    Bring the virus to individuals with most of these factors, and 
> they have a good chance of dying.