But now you’re talking cases and infection vectors. That’s incorrect math. We are talking about death. You don’t include samples in a death calculation who are not vulnerable to death. The young essentially aren’t.
The majority of deaths are not in nursing homes. Many are. The majority are not. The VAST majority are old. The old DEFINE the numerator.
And thus must define the denominator, too.
You know this is true. Don’t contort around it for the economy. The old die. They are the vulnerable. They are the Excess Deaths.
You can see lockdown on the Excess Deaths webpage of the CDC. You can see the curves plummet. But the end of the economy is too great a price. You COULD just quarantine the elderly, not the whole population.
But . . . and this is the ugly subtle item . . . the elderly are 23% of the population and they spend life savings and pensions. They are a huge part of the economy. They have to eat so they still spend, but if they are selectively locked down, they won’t spend on cruises and airplane trips and whatever. They are 23% and 1/2 of their spending would erase. That’s 11% of national revenues in an economy that struggles to get 2% GDP growth.
There is no answer here without a cure. Period.
Of course you do.
The young and everybody else have been included in the death rate calculation from the get go.
Now that the death rate has been found to be equal to or even less than the common flu, you come up with this total nonsense?
Go peddle your garbage at DU.
In New York City, an estimated (from the New York Post) 10,000 out of 18,000 deaths were in nursing homes for old folks. That will make that the the majority of deaths occurred in nursing homes. From Cuomo deliberately infecting them by sending in infected people.
Cuomo deliberately started counting nursing home deaths as hospital deaths after the scandal broke out.
Old folks in nursing homes with preexisting conditions should of course remain there.
Sick and elderly will continue to get treatment in hospitals.
Everybody else back to work.