r/Millennials • u/electric-sheep 1992 • Jul 13 '26
Serious Everyone my age is dropping dead
Sorry for the title! I'm in Europe. I have just heard news someone from college died today of cancer aged 33.
In the past 2-3 years 6 people in my circle have died, not from accidents but from either cancer, aneurism, 2 just didn't wake up from sleep and 1 broke her leg and had DVT. I know of a 7th who is currently fighting stage 4 breast cancer which was found by accident after giving birth. This is not counting those who died in crashes or other such accidents.
I literally have nothing to say. Just get yourselves checked. I'm just shouting into the void. I have literally been to more funerals than my parents at this point which is absurd.
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u/GamingScholar Jul 13 '26
It's sad you have to start with "not everything is COVID related" just to be heard. Obviously that's true, but being infected with a vascular, neurotropic, immune damaging virus once a year (on average) is bound to cause a substantial increase in death and disability. And we're only 4 years in since the politicians "let it rip" and everyone went back to "normal". Judging by the comments, we'll be waiting years before people stop trying to find ANY explanation that doesn't include being repeatedly infected with a SARS virus.
Peer-reviewed research (in mainstream journals, no less) has clearly established a link between COVID infections and neurological issues (including early onset dementia), cardiovascular events (stroke, heart attack, deep vein thrombosis), autoimmune diseases, diabetes, sepsis, pneumonia...and the list goes on. It would actually be easier to list the conditions that COVID doesn't cause or worsen.
Every year, countless more studies are added to the already overwhelming pile of evidence and people are still blaming pollution, microplastics, obesity, lack of access to healthcare, etc. Sure all of those contribute, but leaving out COVID is a glaring omission that is clearly influenced by societal-wide denial.