re: NCAA coronavirus advisory panel details how fan-free college football games are likely

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A car is hanging off the edge of a cliff. It's balanced and maintaining. A bird comes and lands on the edge of the car, and then the car falls off the cliff.

Only a fool would claim the bird was the cause of the car falling off the cliff because it is ignoring all the preexisting conditions that made up the overwhelming bulk of the cause.

Bird lands on a car without all those preexisting conditions, nothing happens. Kind of like Covid. Someone without preexisting conditions gets it, they are fine.

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good analogy. It's sad people don't recognize this on their own.

there are about 3 millions total deaths yearly in the US. If that stat spikes for 2020, covid worry can be justified. but seeing as covid is primarily killing people in the highest morbidity brackets, people shouldn't be surprised when the spike is small or non existent.