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I did the math on this a few weeks ago because I was curious. My math was this: (Population x A) / (LifeExpectancyInYears x 365.25) A is an unknown variable th
by Exmoor 7y ago
I did the math on this a few weeks ago because I was curious. My math was this:
(Population x A) / (LifeExpectancyInYears x 365.25)
A is an unknown variable that equals the what amount of a day people consider as "lost" as a result of mandated lockdown. IE, if everyone considers each day they spend not able to go about their business as a day of their life completely lost than A would equal 1. I suppose some people could consider the cost of a day lost to mandated quarantine as greater than 1.
Anyway, by my calculations based on a US life expectancy of 77.5yrs (28,287.5 days) and a US population of 330 million then that puts the lifetimes lost per day at 11,666. Note, that's lifetimes lost. IE, as if 11,666 babies were born each day, but instead of living the their full life expectancy they all immediately died.
edit: Markdown ate my asterisk symbol and \ doesn't work as an escape character apparently? Changed asterisks to x and the x variable to A.