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> The vast majority will be bedridden people on their last legs Do you have a citation for that? There’s a big jump in mortality at age 50+, but that’s not the
by JimDabell 4y ago
> The vast majority will be bedridden people on their last legs
Do you have a citation for that? There’s a big jump in mortality at age 50+, but that’s not the same thing as “the vast majority are bedridden people on their last legs”.
Also, death is only part of the problem. Long Covid affects people of all ages. A typical twenty-something factory worker might not die of Covid, but that doesn’t mean long Covid can’t make them economically inactive.
- FabHK 4y agoOnce you have the population vaccinated [1], you either make the measures permanent, or you drop them. I don't think a state of affairs is sustainable in which travel is severely restricted, borders are closed, and anytime a case flares up somewhere, the city shuts down for two weeks. So what's the criterion for an exit from Zero COVID? [1] and China is at around 90% vaccination. They might not be good vaccinations, though. But assume, for the sake of the argument, it had the population vaccinated as well as possible.
- concordDance 4y agohttps://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/deathsfromcovid19byageband https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/fre... Majority are 80+ and will disproportionately by the more sickly of those. Don't have good enough data on long covid to discuss it.