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Date: July 04, 2020 03:42AM
Devoted Exmo Wrote:
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> It doesn't care how healthy you are. Even children
> are dying.
It most certainly does matter what age group you fall into and whether or not you have pre-existing conditions. Your statement is unscientific, because it implies (without expressing showing any data) that all age groups and people with any kind or no health conditions are equally affected, which is absolutely not the case statistically. If you're only making the case that "at least one child has died of x," then yes, of course it's true, but only in the trivial (logical) sense.
Mortality rates are highest for those in the 80+ category, where they are in the low double digits. Often these late-life mortalities are associated with several comorbidities (pre-existing conditions), as is to be expected within that age group. Since the average life expectancy for a male in the U.S. is around 78, those in their 80s have already passed their life expectancies.
This is not to undervalue their lives (I may or may not get there myself soon enough) but to realize that statistically no productive value has been removed; their quality of life may have already been heavily compromised; and that the most medically-expensive time of a patient's life is usually the last few months. (My dad's medical bills from the final few months of his life before his death at 85 were over $100K, with, I suspect, very little advantage to show for it, from his point of view, and a lot of unnecessary suffering.)
Mortality rates for middle-aged people (say, 30-50ish) run from about one half of one percent up to one percent.
Mortality rates for children, as you mentioned in your comment, or even people up to age 20 are so far below 1% as to be nearly zero depending on the metric used, country, etc.
https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid#case-fatality-rate-of-covid-19-by-ageIn terms of comorbidities, you might be surprised to learn that Covid deaths with NO cormorbidities at all only amount to 7% of total deaths. That means 93% of all "Covid" deaths are actually "Covid-contributed" to some degree or other.
I haven't found any stats yet on how many of these cases Covid was, say, 90% responsible versus only 10% responsible, or how they would even work out a valid metric for that.
If you logically can make the connection in your science-brain between this little factoid and the mortality by age demographic directly above it, you might correctly deduce that "Covid deaths" are overwhelmingly biased against the elderly with pre-existing conditions, most likely pulmonary related (COPD, etc.), since Covid mainly attacks the lungs.
And this isn't from some right-wing conspiracy site, this is from the CDC.
Quoting: "For 7% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.5 additional conditions or causes per death."
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Comorbidities