He mentioned swine flu took him to brink a few years ago. He was even put on a ventilator, so yeah covid was a real risk for him.
I suggest you keep your potato brained antics to yourself.
Do you remember "The Law of Variable Change" described in the movie "21", starring Kevin Spacey before he came out as a bender to deflect from Anthony Rapp's Ironage sexual assault allegations against him?
If Van_Bilderass was put on a ventilator after being diagnosed with Covid-19, the probability of him actually dying of it increases, because we are dealing with variable change.
I don't recall him saying that, which is why the 99.99% statistic is still close enough to reality. Your suggestion that Van claiming to be sick merits jumping to questioning his death from Covid-19 is still a mathematically asinine assertion to make, with the only weird unaccounted for thing being his month-long absence so far.
That makes the matter a bit suspect, but still puts Covid-19 at a ridiculous potential fate for Van. Let's say the odds are now 99.9% that Van did NOT get Covid-19, given his claim of being sick combined with being gone for a month - that still makes you insinuating it as a possibility to be silly.
If he actually had Covid-19, and claimed to require mechanical ventilation during the Swine Flu pandemic [which was 2012, I think - making Van around 40 then, if my guess about his age is correct], then yeah - the possibility that he has died of COVID increases significantly, as most patients requiring more than 96 hours of ventilation die [upwards of 90% or more]. And while both the Swine Flu and Covid-19 are not dangerous for the overwhelming majority of people under 50, a history of ventilation for a person would change those odds.
I don't recall Van saying that, but I trust that you would have no reason to lie about those facts.
I just recall him saying he was feeling unwell, followed by him disappearing. Given that scenario, it's possible that he was sick with a cold or flu for a few days or a week, opted to stay home in bed, and rather than go online - watched reruns of Mr. Bean [the episode where Mr. Bean went to the swim at the indoor pool, and got scared while attempting to jump off the tower, as well as the episode where Mr. Bean had to change into swimwear at the beach while the man with the sunglasses was watching, which had a surprise ending - and if you listen carefully at the end, you will notice the laughing starts before the final gag, proving the entire show had a laugh track], or the UK version of Dragon's Den...or whatever it is that English speaking ethnic Finnish people living in Sweden do while sick.
In addition to eating chicken noodle soup.
From there, it could just be a matter of Van losing touch with Getbig if he was sick in bed watching TV, rather than going online.
If he genuinely had Covid-19 and required ventilation, I would be much more concerned about Van's chance of dying of it - only because a large number of those ventilated end up dying, and Van HAS been absent here for a month now.
So if what you are saying is correct, and Van previously needed mechanical ventilation to beat the Swine Flu, I would hope he was taking Covid-19 seriously. Just in terms of basic precautions, and not doing blatantly dumb stuff, like attending large house parties with strangers or anything like that.
If Van is alive and well, I would hope that he would realize we'd be worried about him by now.
