Posted on 05/10/2020 7:06:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Even as the global death toll from COVID-19 continues to rise, the impact of the virus may actually be understated, according to a new study from the University of Glasgow.
Using a statistical measure called "years of life lost," researchers found that COVID-19 strips more than a decade away from a person's life, on average. For men, the viral infection takes away about 13 years of potential life lived. For women, it's more like 11 years. Both numbers account for underlying long-term conditions.
The concept of "years of life lost," or YLL, is a mathematical equation that estimates the average time a person would have lived if they had not died because of some unforeseen health event, like COVID-19 infection.
The study, which is still awaiting peer review to ensure accuracy and validity, confirms what should seem obvious, but is nevertheless sobering: COVID-19 is not killing people who are already near death, rather it's claiming the lives of many people more than a decade before their time.
"YLL is a common, widely adopted public health statistic to assess the number of years lost due to premature mortality. It's used to assess resource allocation for research and health care delivery," said Dr. John Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children's Hospital and an ABC News contributor.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
What did ABC News do? Did they use Doctor Who’s Tardis or Dr. Brown’s DeLorean to go ahead in time and see all of these people dying ten years earlier than they should have?
Boy did they pull that out of their butt.....since the majority had underlying conditions.
This is all based on an assumed life span. This is pseudoscience at its best.
After all the media lies, why would I believe this? 10byears is an awfully convenient round number that is scary but in the range of could be. Why 10 years? Why not 8.75 or 11.1 years?
Does it even matter since global warming will kill us all before then. They told us that too.
Ten years earlier than if not from some other random virus or heart disease or high blood pressure or climate change.
OK, what are the YLL from the suicide of a 50-year-old when his business fails? From leukemia of a 6-year-old when he misses the well-care visit that would have found it in time? The heart attack of the 60-year-old who missed his planned elective surgery? The OD on antidepressants of the 25-year-old that was pushed over the edge by the lockdown?
Seriously, f*ck these f*cks.
Here are some stats in the USA and elsewhere to consider:
60% of Wuhan Virus deaths occurred in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, all Democrat-run states with huge lockdowns instead of targeted approaches. You’re pretty safe elsewhere.
SEE HERE:
Arizona’s anti-body testing is following the same pattern that’s found in other regions: More people have had the virus than we first realized, making the mortality rate at most 0.2%, and possibly lower. SEE HERE:
https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1259128029261029377
Finally, despite the media’s sick, desperate hope that Georgia Governor Kemp’s opening his state would result in mass deaths, the opposite is true.
Gov. Kemp just tweeted and said:
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Today marks the lowest number of COVID-19 positive patients currently hospitalized statewide (1,203) since hospitals began reporting this data on April 8th.
Today also marks the lowest total of ventilators in use (897 with 1,945 available).
We will win this fight together!
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Now let’s talk about dying EARLIER than you would have naturally ( as in the title of this thread ):
An Oakland study says social isolation is expected to cause 75,000 more “deaths of despair” over the next decade, with employment serving as the best antidote.
An Australian study claims lockdowns will cause more suicide deaths, especially among the young, than they will save lives from the Wuhan Virus. SEE HERE:
Lockdowns will cause an extra 1.4 million tuberculosis deaths in the next five years because people are not getting tested or treated. SEE HERE:
https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/covid-19-lockdown-risks-14-mn-extra-tb-deaths-study-doc-1r04nn2
We can expect epidemic childhood diseases to surge as people delay vaccinations and health checks for their children. SEE HERE:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/08/health/childhood-vaccines-cdc-covid-wellness/index.html
It’s not just what you see that you must take into consideration, it’s what you don’t see ( and what the Mainstream media like ABC does not report ).
Most of the people who have died were in poor health, to begin with, and a large percentage of them were 80 years old. It’s doubtful that most of them would have lasted 11 or 13 years, but my opinion is just that, an opinion, just like this ABC crock is just an opinion.
FAKE NEWS.
Useless information.
What purpose does this story serve?
ABC - FAKE NEWS
Someone should put away those Crystal Balls
I just read that the median time a person spends in a nursing home before dying is five months. Since there are so many C-virus deaths of people in nursing homes I don’t see how the AP can come up with their statistics. The average length of time a person spends in a nursing home is 13 months but that is due to the few people who live there for many years.
How would you know if you died 10 years too soon?
Chicken bones and tea leaves. Less expensive and can be re-cycled.
A behavioral nudge.
The Mind, Behavior, and Development Unit (eMBeD), the World Bank’s behavioral sciences team, works closely with project teams, governments, and other partners to diagnose, design, and evaluate behaviorally informed interventions. By collaborating with a worldwide network of scientists and practitioners, the eMBeD team provides answers to important economic and social questions, and contributes to the global effort to eliminate poverty and increase equity.
-——https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/embed
With a majority of Corona deaths being octogenarians this number seems a little off by my estimation. Another one of those “models” that can’t predict anything.
Even assuming the headline is true, how does this differ from any other serious disease? How does it differ from the seasonal flu?
A bit premature, don’t you think? Maybe accurate for current deaths but way too soon to predict the long-term impact.
Their purpose is to continue to spread fear so the shut down will continue as long as possible. Because Orange Man is bad, you know.
Garbage sensationalism.
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