Steve Goodman, Stanford liar and propagandist?
Steve Goodman, Stanford liar and propagandist?
I don’t get the controversy.
You can go get the excess deaths numbers yourself. Don’t go reading largely English articles about a math issue. Get the numbers yourself.
There are about 1000 deaths per day for most of this year. 80% of those are over 65. 20% under.
So 800 deaths per day over 65. Over 365 days (come March) this will be 292,000 elderly deaths.
The number of elderly deaths per year in the US is 1.76 Million. 292,000 is 17%.
Society has to decide if 17% is an acceptable number for their parents and grandparents dying more readily than in a normal year. And not 17% is what you get with the measures taken.
You want fewer measures, you want stricter measures. Whichever direction you want society to go it will move the 17% number (as well as reduce society’s life expectancy a bit).