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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
As you enter your senior years, I say, meh, he was never that useful anyways.
Not surprisingly, deaths are disproportionately among the old (and other vulnerable populations) almost everywhere. But even if you're ready to dismiss 2/3 of the deaths as "eh, it's just Mom", Sweden is still a shitshow worse than most other shitshows. And that 5-9 month median remaining life - what bullshit is that? There is virtually no age at which remaining life is that short. Look at an actuarial table. Future life expectancy doesn't get that short until you are well past 100 years old. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html(But now I see what you did - that article is written by a sociologist - e.g., someone with no relevant expertise and little understanding of either stats or healthcare).
And besides the deaths, this is a disease that leaves many of those who contract it with lifelong impairments that will have social and personal costs. The toll will be felt for several decades. |
That's the real issue. I know personally about a dozen people who have had it. About half have had symptoms more than 12 weeks, and very few are back to 100 percent. It's a pretty debilitating disease. The respiratory issues later are pretty bad, and the cardiac are to be seen. Most are in their 30s and 40s, some in their 20s.
We are getting better at treating it, though. Hospitalization length of stay is down, and we're seeing more people walk away. But the death rate is still higher than in March, April, May.
Death is definitely not the only long term issue with this.
