The Dangerous Morbidity Of COVID Denialism

Those who scorn the lethality of Covid-19 are risking the lives of others.

Morbidity, n. — A diseased state or symptom; ill health.

Merriam Webster’s dictionary

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

Mark Twain

Under a vast blue mid-November sky, Peter climbed the grain bin to check on its contents — a task he’d completed countless times in thirty-five years of farming Alberta’s prairies.

Halfway to the top his foot slipped on one of the metal rungs. As he struggled to regain his balance, he lost his grip on the ladder and plummeted, landing head-first on the concrete pad below.

Rushed to hospital, he succumbed within hours to catastrophic brain injuries. Dead, at the age of 67 — leaving his wife, four grown children and five young grandchildren to grieve his passing.

Tragic, you might say.

But it wasn’t a big deal, really. Because Peter had comorbidities, you see. He suffered from high blood pressure and diabetes, and he’d battled prostate cancer for five years. He died with his head injury — not because of his head injury.

That’s ridiculous, I hear you saying — not to mention offensive, ignorant, and moronic.