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Most people don't even know how to mentally frame the problem. It's the number of life years lost that matters, not the number of lives, e.g. the death of a chi
by vcdimension 3y ago
Most people don't even know how to mentally frame the problem. It's the number of life years lost that matters, not the number of lives, e.g. the death of a child with their whole life before them is worse than the death of an elderly person who's already on deaths door. Current statitics focus solely on number of deaths rather than expected years of life lost so we can't even make a fair assessment of the trade-offs involved in different policies.
- tessierashpool 3y agoMost people don't even know how to mentally frame the problem. This is ironic in a comment otherwise concerned with death rates. The risk of disablement is much higher, as is the risk of sequelae.
- vcdimension 3y agoSorry, I should have said quality-adjusted life years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year