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Using that logic, the government should be eager to keep covid around as long as possible because of money being saved by people dying early.
by umvi 5y ago
Using that logic, the government should be eager to keep covid around as long as possible because of money being saved by people dying early.
- kimixa 5y agoThe question would be how does that balance against "productive" years, where they're paying taxes, their work increases the GDP etc.
- Factorium 5y agoAccording to this UK COVID Risk Calculator: https://qcovid.org/Calculation https://qcovid.org/Calculation An average healthy White British male of 66 years (retirement age) has a hospitalisation risk of 1 in 831; death risk of 1 in 2786. By contrast the yearly risk of death in that age bracket generally, from any cause, is 1 in 42: http://www.bandolier.org.uk/booth/Risk/dyingage.html http://www.bandolier.org.uk/booth/Risk/dyingage.html COVID is accelerating deaths from existing comorbidities or very old age; based on this data it is not felling healthy workers.
- Ekaros 5y agoOne could argue that fighting against covid was worst thing we could have done for climate in long run...
- DonHopkins 5y agoWe just voted out a government that tried to do that.