Covid's Three Main Groups

Trying to keep up with the developments of a novel virus and an ever-changing situation is difficult at the best of times, and these aren't exactly the best of times. 

Information I receive about the developing pandemic is largely through statistics and information provided by health authorities and healthcare workers, but no one ever really gets to see the whole picture. 

After six months of turbulence, with some attempts to re-open activities, businesses, and sporting events, we have learned a few things. This is what I have noticed - whether it is correct or incorrect - and how my view of the virus has evolved. 

In my eyes, there seem to be three main groups of Covid cases. 

1. The Young Adult Group

This group is currently evolving to super-spreading status. An age group consistently viewed as acting/feeling invincible that coincidentally suffers milder symptoms. This perpetuates the laisez-faire attitude and reluctance to follow proper guidelines, while spreading the virus around. 

These folks largely seem to get it, spread it, and shed it without the severe or long-term consequences. 

2. Children

Children are normally the super-spreaders of any viral or bacterial infection. Anything you can catch is usually spread like wildfire within childcare and school populations. Yet, we seem to have learned that children may not be spreading this virus as contagiously as adults. Instead, the virus seems to dig in, go dormant, and make a home in their systems, wreaking havoc to the few who have caught it and causing a chronic inflammatory response. 

Kids seem to catch it and keep it, creating a new disease caused by the virus.

3. The Elderly, The Sick, The Vulnerable

The super-spreading, particularly severe, and potentially fatal group that has proven to be the most at-risk. The people in this group seem to absorb the most aggressive effects of this virus in alarming number. The virus attacks with full force then moves on. Killing for sport, not bothering to stick around and go dormant within the system. It has become a full-force fatal surge among our most vulnerable populations, opening every single flaw and crack within our system. 

But what about the people outside of these categories? 

There seem to be some outliers - some who have survived, who are in critical care for months, and may not develop a chronic condition from it. 

Almost as though the virus itself cannot decide which of the three strategies of attack it wants to implement; the get it, spread it, and shed it, the dig in and disease, or the full-force fatal surge. 

Or is it all random and we are merely attaching statistics to an unpredictable virus, just to try and find meaning. 

What do you think?