Yeah, we've talked about this around here before in that if you were to just randomly kill off a million members of your elderly and vulnerable population you would be running a negative excess morbidity for years because those deaths would be missing in the future.

I believe what they're saying is that there are people out there like:

smuglord Excess Morbidity is down to 4%!

And we're like:

doomjak Even with all those deaths, Excess Morbidity is still at 4%!

Edit: This also why claims of Covid being less lethal now are bullshit when we've killed off a couple million of the people most vulnerable to it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it's outstanding to me that they cannot understand that people who are not old now will become old later and also die earlier than they though ought to have. a permanent reduction of life span for everyone going forwards forever, not just a one off thing.

can't even get people to understand that let alone that you know there's a thing going around that makes everyone progressively more vulnerable regardless of age.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

To be totally honest, I think even excluding all the other horrible shit that ignoring Covid is going to bring along, that kids these days getting Covid once or twice year for the rest of their life seem really unlikely to live to their 30s. Like we're all pretty much playing the 'How many Covid infections does it take to kill you?' game and that's not even including the mass Immune Dysregulation that's allowing other pathogens to spread out of control, or the wild shit Climate Change is bringing out. I just deleted a whole list of shit because I was depressing myself, but it's a fucking lot. doomjak