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Rational way of calculating human cost of the pandemic shutdowns and overall management
Posted on 5/4/21 at 9:52 am
Posted on 5/4/21 at 9:52 am
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We find that the benefits of protection are disproportionately higher for older people. Consider two extremes: the 18-year-old and the 85-year-old. If the 18-year-old dies, he loses 61.2 years of expected life. That’s a lot. But the probability of the 18-year-old dying, if infected, is tiny, about 0.004%. So the expected years of life lost are only 0.004% times 35% times 61.2 years, which is 0.0009 year. That’s only 7.5 hours. Everything this younger person has been through over the past year was to prevent, on average, the loss of 7.5 hours of his life.
Now consider the 85-year-old. If he dies, he will lose 6.4 years of expected life. The probability of dying, if infected, is much higher for him, about 8%. So the expected years of life lost are 8% times 35% times 6.4 years, which is 0.179 year—65 days. The benefits of protection, measured in life expectancy, are 210 times as high for the older person.
The costs of protection include reduced schooling, reduced economic activity, increased substance abuse, more suicides, more loneliness, reduced contact with loved ones, delayed cancer diagnoses, delayed childhood vaccinations, increased anxiety, lower wage growth, travel restrictions, reduced entertainment choices, and fewer opportunities for socializing and building friendships.
Tl;dr: just another mathematical way of concluding what reasonable, non-sheep already know... Basically fricked over the youth of this country on multiple fronts (which the article also delves into), for no reason.
LINK to WSJ for non-poors
Posted on 5/4/21 at 10:12 am to Lou Pai
Hey, one life man. If it only saves one life.
Posted on 5/4/21 at 10:14 am to Lou Pai
It's just two weeks until we flatten the curve.
Posted on 5/4/21 at 10:21 am to Lou Pai
The Spleen believes in the science
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