This week, I read through a piece on Focus of a German forensic expert....who'd done around 230-odd autopsies out of Hamburg in 2020.....of Covid victims.
It required me to put it down and ponder a good bit.
So the key elements of this story.....this guy (Klaus Puschel) normally did crime victim investigations, but 2020 erupted with a lot of Covid deaths out of the regional area of Hamburg. At the conclusion of this effort....looking at bodies and medical history....he says basically the vast majority had previous ailments/problems (lung/heart).
Some people knew of their problems.....some didn't know anything.
In my own words....he lays out the case that all of the 230-odd people were living on 'borrowed time' even before Covid arrived. Their previous ailments/problems were an open-door to Covid being severe.
'Borrowed time' is something we tend not to think much about.
A lot of us probably walk around for a decade or two.....having stupid health habits...smoking a pack a day....eating a pretty fatty diet....marginally working out....continually in a bad mental state, and never think much about the borrowed time factor.
What Covid has actually done, if you think about this.....it's erased the length of the borrowed time, and reset the clock. Folks who thought they get away with a decade or two of stupid health stuff....are running out of borrowed time.
Puschel ends his story with some advice....'stay fit'.
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