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The likelihood that “pure, solely coronavirus deaths” are so low does make a difference when analyzing the pandemic in terms of years of life lost, an important measurement.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) applies a principle that “the allocation of health resources must consider not only the number of deaths by cause but also by age.” Therefore, the CDC explains that the “years of potential life lost” is a useful figure — not because the lives of young people are more important than the lives of the elderly, but because humans can only delay death, not prevent it, and beause there is a difference between a disease that kills a 20-year-old in the prime of her life and one that kills a 90-year-old who would have otherwise died a month later.

Taking this figure, James Agresti and Andrew Glen at Just Facts compared the maximum years of life the lockdowns could possibly save and compared it to the years of life lost from the anxiety surrounding the pandemic, including lockdown anxiety. “The anxiety from reactions to Covid-19—such as business shutdowns, stay-at-home orders, media exaggerations, and legitimate concerns about the virus—will extinguish at least seven times more years of life than can possibly be saved by the lockdowns,” they concluded.

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Here’s my take on this entire death count issue ( and the author said it better than me ):

There may be four types of recorded coronavirus deaths:

(1) deaths only caused by COVID-19 (roughly 3 percent),

(2) deaths in which COVID-19 ended the life of someone already struggling with health conditions,

(3) deaths from other causes but after a patient had tested positive for the virus, and

(4) deaths falsely marked “COVID-19” when there was not even a test.

Deaths of type 1 and 2 are rightly considered coronavirus deaths, while deaths of type 3 are much harder to distinguish from type 2, and deaths of type 4 are completely inflating the numbers.

The question to ask is this — in our statistics, HOW MANY PERCENT ARE TYPE 3 and 4?