It's not the lack of an immune system that causes the most COVID deaths; it's the overactive immune response, which can happen - and does happen - in anyone. That, along with the state of hypercoagulation. The reason why it's killing more elderly than young people is because the immune system reaction COVID triggers causes organ damage via the endothelium in all because that's how it enters the body - but in the elderly, organs aren't as good as those newly born/younger folk and the damage COVID causes is enough to push them over the edge. It's not because their immune systems are weaker. In younger people, it shortens the lifespan of the organs to a degree, and decreases general organ function but they still have enough to rely on in most cases. The damage is akin to having a heart attack in one's 20s (and shows in scans the same as progressive heart damage does), so it's best to avoid COVID even if young and fit.
It's not how strong your immune system is, and all about how healthy your body is so that the damage COVID causes to organs doesn't keel you over. Which is partly why the younger you are, the less likely to die. That's not to say it doesn't give you less overall function and right now we don't know if that's permanent or not. There are some parts of the body, like heart muscle, that doesn't heal. And yes this heart damage was found even in people with mild COVID or asymptomatic COVID.
The Chinese were not fucking around when they made this virus, and it baffles me that people don't realize how insidious it really is. Everyone is arguing/focusing on deaths and not really caring that it's destroying young people too, except long it long-term so that people ignore it.
It's not the lack of an immune system that causes the most COVID deaths; it's the overactive immune response, which can happen - and does happen - in anyone. That, along with the state of hypercoagulation. The reason why it's killing more elderly than young people is because the immune system reaction COVID triggers causes organ damage via the endothelium in all because that's how it enters the body - but in the elderly, organs aren't as good as those newly born/younger folk and the damage COVID causes is enough to push them over the edge. It's not because their immune systems are weaker. In younger people, it shortens the lifespan of the organs to a degree, and decreases general organ function but they still have enough to rely on in most cases. The damage is akin to having a heart attack in one's 20s (and shows in scans the same as progressive heart damage does), so it's best to avoid COVID even if young and fit.
It's not how strong your immune system is, and all about how healthy your body is so that the damage COVID causes to organs doesn't keel you over. Which is partly why the younger you are, the less likely to die. That's not to say it doesn't give you less overall function and right now we don't know if that's permanent or not. There are some parts of the body, like heart muscle, that doesn't heal. And yes this heart damage was found even in people with mild COVID or asymptomatic COVID.
The Chinese were not fucking around when they made this virus, and it baffles me that people don't realize how insidious it really is. Everyone is arguing/focusing on deaths and not really caring that it's destroying young people too, except long it long-term so that people ignore it.