Well, here is cheering news for the very old. What is nearly 86 but very old?

 

People older than 85 make up only 2 percent of the population, but a quarter of the total death toll. One in 35 people 85 or older died of covid, compared with 1 in 780 people age 40 to 64.

In 1955 I spent many months in TB facilities (one a Louisiana warehouse for the dying--and many died--before I left it). In the late 1980s doctors (who had just seen a lecture on what to watch for) were sure shingles above the eye meant I had AIDS. Last year great ocular oncologists told me I had Lymphoma and that they could enucleate (remove) my formerly good right eye. I have made up my mind not to die of Covid, dammit, and to keep both eyes.