They were alive before they caught COVID, dead afterwards
Most would have lived a decade or more if not for COVID
Wrong.
Covid did not and can not do anything to at all hasten death.
And the over reactions by the immune system that can cause death, are easily treated to prevent them from causing dealth.
For example, with malaria.
The parasite is nasty and can eventually cause things like bone erosion after decades.
But that is not what normally kills people who die soon after contracting malaria.
The main immune system response to an attacking parasite like malaria, is fever.
By increasing the body temperature, that kills off most invading parasites.
But since malaria came from Africa, fever does not work.
And when it does not work, instead of the immune system giving up on fever, it double down.
It keeps increasing the fever until the patient dies.
So then one of the single most important treatments for malaria, is quinine, to shut down the immune system from causing fevers.
Quinine, (and its synthetic equivalents, like HCQ), are well known immuno suppressants which obviously can save lives and prevent death, when faced with possible lethal over active immune responses.
Do I need to keep up with this explanation?