> olden days dumb people just died and didnt reproduce. It seems like this is not an internally consistent statement. If "dumbness" is genetic and smart peopl

> olden days dumb people just died and didnt reproduce. It seems like this is not an internally consistent statement. If "dumbness" is genetic and smart people make smart offspring and dumb people make dumb offspring, where do today's dumb people come from? Clearly, not the dumb people who died and did not reproduce. The correct statement is that people who were not well adapted to their environment died. Some of them actually died after reproducing. > same reality that you have a .5% chance of dying from covid. One, "known" averages and individualized "probabilities" are different things. Two, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28460412 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28460412 Now you are confounding the probability of a random infected person dying with the probability of a randomly picked person in your own demographic group dying from Covid19. For example, 3,145 females between 30-39 years of age died from Covid19 between 01/01/2020-09/04/2021. It looks like there are about 22 million people in that age group which corresponds to 0.014% probability of a randomly picked person in that group dying from Covid19 within that period. [1]: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex-and-Age/9bhg-hcku https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex...