[ChrisMarshallNY]

These are valid concerns.

It appears that COVID is a blood disease, as opposed to a pulmonary disease.

I know a 19-year-old girl that had a stroke, as a result of COVID.

I was talking to an acquaintance that is a mortician, a few months ago, and he said they could always tell the people that died of COVID, because their blood had a different consistency.

[schnebbau]

Well that's interesting because I was also talking to an acquaintance that is a mortician, a few months ago, and he said that anecdotes like this contain absolutely no valuable data at all and only help to sow misinformation.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

> Well that's interesting because I was also talking to an acquaintance that is a mortician, a few months ago, and he said that anecdotes like this contain absolutely no valuable data at all and only help to sow misinformation.

That was why I framed it as a personal anecdote. It really happened (unlike yours). It is not supposed to be a valid data point. No double-blind scientific analysis. Just a short personal story.

If I don't have anything other than anectdata, I am careful to frame it as personal experience and PoV.

I thought we didn't do stuff like this (sarcastic personal attacks) on HN, but I am often wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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