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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 8102156" data-attributes="member: 6689464">This thing keeps hitting close to home. My great uncle passed away yesterday. We weren't close, but still he was essentially the patriarch of the family. I respected him and looked up to him -my father was named after him-. I feel for my grandma and my great aunt, (just the last month my great aunt lost her husband, and my aunt -her daughter- was hospitalized because of Covid and still has sequels. My aunt is barely a few years older than me.)I can't really comprehend how things are going, and I'm more and more scared every day for everybody close to me. I'm also increasingly angrier at people who keep denying how dangerous this is (and/or keep treating this as if it was simply culling the old and the ill and it is ok because they are full of the Malthusian Kool-aid and have no empathy for these they deem undesirable). Yes, my great uncle was 90, but he was very healthy. He was in top condition, had good habits and exercised regularly. He was in better shape -and health- at 90 than many in their twenties. He didn't have a "preexisting condition". He was by no means at death's door, if not for this he could have easily made it to a hundred years while still remaining active and self-reliant.I don't know how to feel, I'm torn between sadness, worry and anger. (Am I wadgry?) Sorry for the rant</blockquote>