Average Age Of Coronavirus Fatalities Is 82

[royfromaus]

The average age of death in UK ...81.16 years


That's all folks.

[Peter Pedant]

// The new figures appear to provide support for the ‘Great Barrington Declaration’, //

complete non sequitur - from down under
The great Barrington Bullshot is a fantasy that no one will get infected over 60 if those under 60 take no precautions

the over 80s are not infecting each other but getting from those younger

[New Judge]

//complete non sequitur - from down under
The great Barrington Bullshot is a fantasy that no one will get infected over 60 if those under 60 take no precautions//

Really? Where does it say that, then? Here's the full text in case you're interested:

https://gbdeclaration.org/

And where does "down under" come into the frame? As I understand it the declaration gets its name from Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where it was signed. The three principle signatories are from Harvard, Stanford and Oxford Universities. Of the other 35 listed on the declaration just two are from New Zealand, the rest from nowhere in the Antipodes.

Having read it, it proposes "focussed protection" based on the risk to individuals rather than the blanket, economy-crippling lockdown approach currently being adopted. It says nothing about what might happen to over 60s or under 60s. You should give it a read. Even I've managed it, as thick as I am.

[LadyCG]

My uncle turned 70 during his Coronavirus battle. He spent 4 months and one day as an inpatient, flitting between ITU, MHDU and the stroke ward. He then went to a rehabilitation centre, then was rushed back into hospital triggering the sepsis pathway and now he is back in rehab. The therapists reckon he should be home by Christmas. That will be an 8-month recovery / rehabilitation period, all in all.

It is a horrible disease and he is incredibly lucky he pulled through.