Do you really believe that the death rate is 1% for people over the age of 70? Are or just trying to pull a lawyer trick by saying "old people" instead of 70+?
So why should everyone shut down their lives for those over 70? Can't they (who are most likely retired anyway) isolate if they are so afraid, or choose to live as per usual and assume the risk for their own health?
No, it shouldn't. The lives destroyed by the shutdown is worth more than the lives lost to the disease. Lives vs livelihood is very valid argument that gets thrown in the woodchipper whenever someone pulls out the "covid is a hoax" argument. Denying reality (that the morality rate for 70+ is 5%) hurts those of us who want to reopen knowing the risks.
Human behavior isn't logical, and decisions aren't made by carefully weighing the merits of the respective arguments. They are made by either manipulation or mob mentality, either of which require oversimplification. Hyperbole is a necessary component of our political environment, for good or ill
Not deadly at all for young, healthy people like Kayleigh.
Do you deny that the morality rate for 70+ is around 5%?
Do you really believe that the death rate is 1% for people over the age of 70? Are or just trying to pull a lawyer trick by saying "old people" instead of 70+?
The WHO, well fuck then it may as well be in the Bible.
So why should everyone shut down their lives for those over 70? Can't they (who are most likely retired anyway) isolate if they are so afraid, or choose to live as per usual and assume the risk for their own health?
No, it shouldn't. The lives destroyed by the shutdown is worth more than the lives lost to the disease. Lives vs livelihood is very valid argument that gets thrown in the woodchipper whenever someone pulls out the "covid is a hoax" argument. Denying reality (that the morality rate for 70+ is 5%) hurts those of us who want to reopen knowing the risks.
Human behavior isn't logical, and decisions aren't made by carefully weighing the merits of the respective arguments. They are made by either manipulation or mob mentality, either of which require oversimplification. Hyperbole is a necessary component of our political environment, for good or ill
Wasn’t it 5% for 70+ with at least two co-morbidities? These stats were floating around a few weeks ago.
Just 5% for all 70+. I suspect it's probably 2% for 70 year olds and 10% for 90 years old.
Death rate for people 70+ with COVID is the same as death rate for people 70+ without COVID. They're old. That's how it works. They die from sleep.