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The question would be how does that balance against "productive" years, where they're paying taxes, their work increases the GDP etc.
by kimixa 5y ago
The 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.