[westopher]

Yeah agreed. And I’m not trying to overstate it. They’re both still alive, but there’s no reason to believe that waiting a couple months extra to start radiation could have been the difference in my grandfather surviving, as it was touch and go if they were going to be able to treat it enough to eradicate it. (It was multiple skin tumours)
There are definitely people that are faring worse. A friend of mine lost his wife to cancer this year and I don’t doubt that the delays in her treatment could have played a role. That’s a lot of people affected in my life, and when you extrapolate that over millions of people that could be a shitload or collateral damage. Especially at this point in our vaccination timeline. The people who just didn’t get around to it are very few and far between and the majority are people who are choosing to have this virus to continue to be catastrophic.