30-year-old dies after attending 'Covid party' in Texas

[GDR]

Covid party, well that's just stupid. Those still in denial that covid is real and dangerous or those that think the lockdowns didnt help need to open your eyes. People evolved as hunters and gatherers, not sardines, keeping some distance from others is a good thing.

With 2 young children in my house it's a pretty steady turnover rate of one sickness to another. (And we are all healthy normal people) Everytime they go back to school in the fall or after Christmas break they bring home another cold. Was just thinking this am that nobody in our house has had any sort of cold or flu etc since the lockdown started in March. You can't tell me it's not working just like it was supposed to, maybe wouldnt have caught covid anyhow but you just never know. By the way on the radio today is 3 more cases in our town of 5000 people.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Unless you are saying 24 farmers and ranchers per 100k have died from covid 19 directly then your comparison is irrelevant. All deaths vs a specific cause of death are gonna be very different numbers. Just like everyone comparing covid deaths with flu deaths, they are additional not replacement numbers.

As I said, draw your own conclusions.
I looked it up after reading the previous comments. I have been offering a lot of respect to doctors and nurses who willingly expose themselves to infected patients, while other civil servants refused to work in safe occupations. Knowing that I am in one of the most deadly occupations, I thought I would see how justified my concern is or the medical staff. Looks like I am still at least twice as likely to die at work than they are of Covid. As or baseline numbers, they don't make the top 25 list, I had to find a paper from 2005 to get any numbers, looks like 0.017 to 0.057 per 100,000 medical staff deaths per year, so additional is mostly meaningless.
That still doesn't lessen my respect for their dedication. Not sure I would willingly do so.

[rumrocks]

The liberals have decided to keep the Canada /Us border closed for another month, one of the back benchers may have spoke up, but where was that logic when they allowed flights from Wuhan to land in Canada for six weeks after they knew a deadly contagious virus was in that region.

[newguy]

The liberals have decided to keep the Canada /Us border closed for another month, one of the back benchers may have spoke up, but where was that logic when they allowed flights from Wuhan to land in Canada for six weeks after they knew a deadly contagious virus was in that region.

people I know who got it were snow birds and got infected in the states.