In the end, cancer will get us all. Same with Covid, apparently. It's just that as a general rule, most of us don't live our lives worrying about things that will kill us at 80.
Hang on...on this note, I think Primemuscle may be turning 80 this year.
Well, Prime, you should be happy to know this:
For HEALTHY NON-OBESE PEOPLE AGED 80-89, the ACTUAL odds of dying of Covid are on the order of 1.5%, or 1 in 67.
I'm not sure if you have a lot of health conditions, as from what I am aware, you are pretty healthy for your age.
You are not obese. You may be overweight on the BMI scale, but I weigh 175.5-lb, which makes me 8-lb overweight for my height on the BMI scale. Even if you are overweight, overweight is not obese, and even if you were obese [for me, 201-lb on the BMI scale], that is not severely obese [268-lb on the BMI scale].
So if you are a generally healthy person, even at your age, getting Covid is not a death sentence.
Basically, Covid is much like the flu - and would only kill those of us at a point where we are already dying anyway. Maybe you have the genetics to live to age 95, but could catch Covid at 92, and die then, instead.
Certainly Covid is more of a threat to you at your age, than to me at age 40. But even at your age, Covid is not a death sentence. But to expect those of us in age demographics where 99.99% of people have survived Covid this far to worry about dying of this virus [i.e., Canadians aged 40-49] is completely absurd.
As I said, all men will eventually die of prostate cancer if they live long enough. Of course this concerns me on some minor level, but in general, I don't go around day to day worrying about it.
In fact, I expose myself to friends sick with Covid every chance I get, in order to build greater immunity to it.