Have people always used the word "deadly" to describe illnesses that kill the old and those with preexisting conditions, but actually healthy non-obese people overwhelmingly recover from?
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Have people always used the word "deadly" to describe illnesses that kill the old and those with preexisting conditions, but actually healthy non-obese people overwhelmingly recover from?
Fact is it’s not particularly deadly, it just reaches too many people.
Oh I know I'm fine--I even think I may have had it already. I just feel like I'm going crazy seeing so many people casually describing it as "deadly" without pushback.
I guess I can see that. It seems weird to me because I never hear the flu called "deadly." I did a web search and got a lot of "flu could/can be deadly" instead.
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There are a lot of people dying from this who would not have died within the next 10 years, and who were still active, productive members of society. Sure, it's disproportionately killing people who would have died within the next 6 months to a year anyway, and who were already too disabled to be active members of society, but it's not like those are the only people dying.
But would you describe it as "deadly"?