>>500 per day is about 1.43 x 10-6 or .000143 percent of the population.
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Wrong denominator. They are nearly all oldsters. There are 56 million of those.
500/day X 365 = 182,500/year of the 56 million. 0.3% of the oldster population.
500 is a quietly ugly number. We got up to 3500/day during this past winter. The death curve was north of 1000 as late as March. If the upcoming months look anything like last year, we’ll wind up with a full year average in the ballpark of 1500/day. That would be the same 400K for the year.
Which is over 1% of the elderly pop. It’s also the source of about 1.8 years of total population Life Expectancy loss over the past 2 years. We’re at 76.6 now. Another year like last year and we’ll be sub 76.
If you don’t care to live past 75, then you need not care about old folks.
But we may have a different year. There is residual vax. There are some treatments out there, but in the oldster population vax and recovery immunity both have died by now.
We’ll see.