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"Covid has affected and killed enough "younger" people - by which I mean folks younger than 40." If that were true, it would have happened everywhere. If we st
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"Covid has affected and killed enough "younger" people - by which I mean folks younger than 40."
If that were true, it would have happened everywhere. If we steelman the COVID policy case by looking at Sweden, which should theoretically be the worst hit place, what we see is that there was no excess death for under 75s in 2020.
There have been many claims that COVID kills the young. But these claims must be exaggerated because it doesn't show up in the data, at least not for Europe. If we look at Euromomo, so incorporating countries with far harsher restrictions and worse healthcare systems, then we also cannot see any mortality under 40:
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
The first age range where mortality is seen is 45-64 years. But even there, we are talking about a change from ~9k deaths a week (normal) to ~11k deaths a week in each wave, which for a place the size of Europe is hardly a crisis level change.