Posted on 04/11/2021 1:07:14 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...My original post included my disagreement with Tyler’s insistence on discounting the fact that Covid reserves its dangers overwhelmingly for the very old.
James Markels believes my criticism of Tyler to be mistaken. One of Mr. Markels’s points is this one:
First, the fact that COVID-19 disproportionately killed the elderly was not something that was readily apparent right out of the box, when the virus was spreading rapidly.
This claim by Mr. Markels is incorrect. (Other of his claims also strike me as being either incorrect or inapt, but here – save for a brief point made below in closing – I limit my attention to the point quoted above.)
Yesterday in the comments section of Tyler’s post I offered some evidence of the early recognition of the age profile of Covid’s victims. This evidence was questioned by at least one other commenter. This morning, I happened to learn of an op-ed by Dr. David Katz that appeared in the March 20th, 2020, edition of the New York Times. Dr. Katz is founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center....
"The clustering of complications and death from Covid-19 among the elderly and chronically ill, but not children (there have been only very rare deaths in children), suggests that we could achieve the crucial goals of social distancing — saving lives and not overwhelming our medical system — by preferentially protecting the medically frail and those over age 60, and in particular those over 70 and 80, from exposure."
Not only does Dr. Katz’s op-ed from nearly 13 months ago disprove the claim that the age profile of Covid’s victims was not known early on, note that Dr. Katz’s recommendation for how best to deal with Covid-19 is essentially the same as that offered in the Great Barrington Declaration....
(Excerpt) Read more at cafehayek.com ...
Before Trump talked about it on Jan 27th, 2020.
We knew almost immediately...I think the home was in Washington State. We weren’t seeing it in young ones. Pediatricians would have been all over the place. They regularly tell us locally what’s happening.
Fauci was still preaching...don’t even think about it...as late as Feb 29th 2020.
I remember we were doing the isolation to save Granny.
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Ummmm....stating the obvious, 'we' is highly subjective.
As well, the quote above was on the basis of facts which were clearly apparent by May 2020 and - though I never saw a single op-ed at the time - were words which literally mirror my own, almost word-for-word.
I'm so done with this shit.
Doesn’t most disease/illness impact the elderly most, usually?
Yeah I don’t know exactly when it was obvious, but I recall that the first major outbreak was in a nursing home in Seattle area. That’s pretty much what caused other governors to put quarantines on nursing homes sometime in March of 2020. I could be mistaken as to when “our betters” knew about it but that seems to be when it was widely reported and caught my eye.
Someone should fact check this, but I had read that the median age of death in the USA is around 78 years old, and the median age of death by covid is also 78 years old.
Yes. The age profile was known from the very first reviews, from every country, China and Italy initially. The same age dynamic was found in every study or compendium of cases.
“Doesn’t most disease/illness impact the elderly most, usually?”
No. Not viral infections to the degree seen with the Wuhan virus.
Smallpox, polio affected and killed all ages about the same.
Medicare and Medicaid relaxed their regs to allow residential care facilities to refuse to take back sick patients in the middle of last March.
I’d say that’s a pretty good indication right there.
The 2009 H1N1 was worse for kids.
But not many remember that.
Hmmmm, who was prez then...?
Funny how that works.
Short answer: We knew early on the disease impacted the elderly the most.>>> And some democrat governors proceeded to murder a bunch of old folks.
Outside of the old and the obese, COVID killed almost no one.
My mom ( 80 years old) just beat Covid 19. Hit her hard but she pulled through. Considering she has COPD ( Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) , along with a host of other issues, it was nothing short of a miracle.
Here is a link from Feb 2020 on FR:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3817507/posts
Deadly coronavirus ‘kills 15 PER CENT of patients over 80’ and the never-before-seen strain is ‘up to 20 TIMES more infectious than SARS’
Smallpox, polio affected and killed all ages about the same.”
He's basically right. My wife, a retired pediatric nurse instructor, picked up on that almost immediately. Why wasn't it decimating infants. They should have been decimated unless the infection is far less lethal than stated with the exception of specific cohorts ie: elderly, immunospressed. etc. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/health/coronavirus-children-immune.html
No the Spanish Flu (you know, the one named after it's country of origin, Spain) in the last pandemic in 1917 killed mostly young people. It badly hit soldiers in WWI. This China Virus, (You know, the one named after it's country of origin, China....Oh wait!) Is quite different.
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