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Greg's avatar

“We were too hopeful this Wouldn’t happen

Nobody ever mentioned OAS”

—Walensky ..sometime in the fall

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Your assumptions for why flu is supposedly high risk for the elderly are wrong. Advanced age is heavily confounded by lifestyle factors, which means the effect of immunosenescence is being overestimated by basically all doctors and scientists. Old age often correlates with poor diet, lack of movement, no exercise, malnutrition, deficiencies, no sun exposure, low protein, low salt diets, the use of multiple prescription drugs, having comorbidities, etc. All of that has a negative impact on the different parts and the entire immune system. This is why we could see healthy elderly barely being affected by respiratory infections (incl. SARS-CoV-2) in some countries, while in other places, they were dropping like flies, particularly when it comes to nursing homes. Japan is a perfect example, where the impact of SARS-CoV-2 and/or flu has been minimal in the last few years, despite Japan having 36 million people over 65 and having the oldest population globally. People who claim that age is a risk factor in a causal fashion when it comes to the impact of SARS-CoV-2 are clueless, which unfortunately includes many top and prominent voices, including doctors and scientists on our side.

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