The CDC reports that, in America, the age-dependent infection fatality rates for Covid19 are:
Age Risk of death
0 - 19 0.00003 or one in 33,33320 - 49 0.0002, or one in 5,000
50 - 69 0.005, or one in 200
70 + 0.06, or one in 18
Or looking at that in a more positive way, Covid19 survival rates are:
Age Survival rate
20 - 49 Years 99.98%
50 - 69 Years 99.5%
70 - 80 Years 94.6%
And that's if you're infected. But thus far, probably no more than about one in ten of the world's population has been infected, so if effective vaccines materialize, you'll likely never be infected.
And for comparison, here are all ages risk of death due to some other causes:
Cancer: one in 562
heart disease: one in 520
Respiratory disease: one in 2104
Motor vehicle accident: one in 5243
So what those numbers show is that it would make as much sense to shutter much of the economy to protect under-50's from motor vehicle accidents as to protect them from covid-19. Yet no one in the right mind would suggest doing anything so idiotic. So why do we do something so idiotic because of Covid19? Explanations invited.
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