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In Italy, median age of people who have died of Corona is 83 for women and 79 for men [1]. Normal life expectancy is lower than that in the United States [2]. L

In Italy, median age of people who have died of Corona is 83 for women and 79 for men [1]. Normal life expectancy is lower than that in the United States [2]. Lockdown measures will have severe impact on GDP, and GDP is correlated with life expectancy [3]. It can easily happen that by killing economy in order to save lives, we may actually be doing the opposite in the long term. [1] https://www.iss.it/web/guest//comunicati-stampa/-/asset_publisher/fjTKmjJgSgdK/content/id/5286166 https://www.iss.it/web/guest//comunicati-stampa/-/asset_publ... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe... [3] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-gdp-per-capita https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-gdp-pe...

hef19898 7y ago
The US might not be the best country to benchmark other developed countries against, so. Personnaly, I have issues with people using economic data, read money, to define the value of other peoples lives.
pibi 7y ago
Normal life expectancy is lower than that in the United States I read on your link that average life expectancy in Italy is 83.4, about 4 years more than US (at 78.9). So I don't get your point unless you are speaking about the age structure: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_age_structure https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_age_str...
ClumsyPilot 7y ago
It's not just 83 year olds on the ventilator. What's the economy going to be like with millions 'working from hospital?'