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The chance of a child seeing anyone under 60 die of covid was incredibly small, because the vast majority of covid deaths were concentrated in people aged 80 an
by logicchains 3y ago
The chance of a child seeing anyone under 60 die of covid was incredibly small, because the vast majority of covid deaths were concentrated in people aged 80 and above; the median age of covid deaths is around 80. In contrast, 100% of children had their learning affected by school closures.
The deaths were also not "preventable" by school closures; the stringency of lockdown measures had no impact on mortality: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hec.4737 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hec.4737
- plagiarist 3y ago[flagged]
- logicchains 3y agoMost of those deaths only had 2-3 years of life remaining anyway; the children are still going to see them die. A child's not going to be particularly traumatized seeing someone old die at age 81 instead of 83; people dying in old age is part of the human condition. People have to be really sheltered to consider someone dying in their 80s a tragedy; for most of humanity's existence even surviving to 80 was considered a great achievement worthy of celebration.