Hooper31
Footballguy
I almost started this as a discussion in the FFA, but thought better of it.
The best I can find seems to indicate that the mean covid19 death is in the 70s. If this is wrong please let me know. However, because the distribution has a giant skew to it the proper way to discuss average death age here would be median (just like we do with incomes). I can't find an accurate median covid19 death age. I've looked in a few places. If someone can has a link to one I would love to see it. My best guess is it has to be well over 80. This sickness isn't killing healthy kids. The nationwide count of kids under 15 that has died is in line with the amount that does from similar related sicknesses each year. It's wiping out our elderly.
Disclaimer: I'm generally a very liberal dude. I've voted for exactly 1 Republican in the last 30 years.
My opinion: Our nationwide reaction to this pandemic is an enormous over-reaction. Anyone that seems to say so is shouted down by those that have been coaxed into a state of panic and fear. I strongly believe that Sweden has taken the correct approach to this. It's like rationality has just been brushed away. Every year people die from the flu. The data is readily available. Some years it's only about 30K. Other years it swells to 60K. Down to 40K. Back up to 60K. It happens. If I would have told you all this a year ago and said that next year it was going to jump up to 120K, or perhaps even 200K, what would you have thought a rational nationwide response have been? Yeah, it's not the normal flu. It's pretty bad, but it's been pretty bad before. Worse even. I don't see how we can look back at this past year and not think we've made a huge mistake. If the response is that we couldn't predict how bad it would be I fear we're setting ourselves up for a state on constant fear moving forward. When another bad one hits, we won't know how bad that one will be either. Will we shut it all down again?
The best I can find seems to indicate that the mean covid19 death is in the 70s. If this is wrong please let me know. However, because the distribution has a giant skew to it the proper way to discuss average death age here would be median (just like we do with incomes). I can't find an accurate median covid19 death age. I've looked in a few places. If someone can has a link to one I would love to see it. My best guess is it has to be well over 80. This sickness isn't killing healthy kids. The nationwide count of kids under 15 that has died is in line with the amount that does from similar related sicknesses each year. It's wiping out our elderly.
Disclaimer: I'm generally a very liberal dude. I've voted for exactly 1 Republican in the last 30 years.
My opinion: Our nationwide reaction to this pandemic is an enormous over-reaction. Anyone that seems to say so is shouted down by those that have been coaxed into a state of panic and fear. I strongly believe that Sweden has taken the correct approach to this. It's like rationality has just been brushed away. Every year people die from the flu. The data is readily available. Some years it's only about 30K. Other years it swells to 60K. Down to 40K. Back up to 60K. It happens. If I would have told you all this a year ago and said that next year it was going to jump up to 120K, or perhaps even 200K, what would you have thought a rational nationwide response have been? Yeah, it's not the normal flu. It's pretty bad, but it's been pretty bad before. Worse even. I don't see how we can look back at this past year and not think we've made a huge mistake. If the response is that we couldn't predict how bad it would be I fear we're setting ourselves up for a state on constant fear moving forward. When another bad one hits, we won't know how bad that one will be either. Will we shut it all down again?