[hastes]

My mother and grandmother both had it.

My mother worked out on the Peloton every single day, didn't miss one workout, and said that she was fine. She experienced mild symptoms and loss of smell and fevers, but other than that she was fine.

My grandmother was rushed to the hospital because she is in the prime age range and has just about every single previous condition you could imagine for someone pushing 90. She was diagnosed with Covid and Pneumonia, felt like shit for a while, and was release and is now fine.

I am not saying the virus is not real or isn't serious, but at some point we need to stop only looking at number of confirmed cases, and start digging a little deeper before we start spreading all of this rash fear.

[stingrae]

This is anecdotal evidence and trying to derive patterns from it is dangerous. We know that COVID-19 is much more dangerous than the typical annual flu and we are at risk of overrunning the icus.

[thesis]

Why is it dangerous to talk about their experience? Was it anecdotal and dangerous for the OP of the thread to post their experience as well?

[666lumberjack]

Their final paragraph goes beyond just sharing an anecdote and into making prescriptive judgements about how society should approach the virus based on those anecdotes in contravention of the medical consensus. I presume that's the issue people have with it.

[arcticbull]

At this point the disease has been with us for a year, and we do have a lot of evidence. It's not particularly serious for certain demographics, and incredibly dangerous for others - particularly that of your grandparents. I'm happy your grandparents are okay, though I suggest you not over index on anecdota too. God forbid one of them had died, that anecdote wouldn't necessarily tell us the disease is 50% fatal.