Originally Posted by
Seneca Pilot
As I take in the news surrounding this virus I have to keep reminding myself that the survival rate is 99.78% and a huge percentage of the deaths have been of people beyond their average life span. As the dust settles in a couple of years I am guessing that the actual excess deaths will be flat to slightly up and well within normal distribution of error. One has to ask him/herself what the hell we are allowing to be done to us?
Eventually the death rate is ALWAYS 100%, which is why the usual metric of death measurement in epidemiology (at least in less snowflake times) was YPPL, that is, Years of Potential Life Lost.
That metric would value the death of a 90 year old at his/her actuarial life expectancy of just under five years while valuing the death of a 16 year old at 65 and a half years, a recognition that nobody is going to live forever.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html