CoVid19 Part XIV - 8,089 in ROI (288 deaths) 1,589 in NI (92 deaths) (10/04) Read OP

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

Mean, median... Makes it sound like old people are dying. A 32 year old died of this.

"Old" people dying is bad too. People that may have had five or ten more years with loved ones, so there's that. A 32 year old dying is terribly sad I agree, but they are the small minority. If cases are anything to go by in most other countries deaths under 40 are nearly always of folks with serious underlying conditions. In the the Italian numbers not a single death under 40 wasn't in that category, though from what I'm reading of American deaths. particularly among some minorities it's hitting the younger much harder.

Now don't get me wrong A, it's obviously still a bloody tragedy and more, there are an awful lot of sub 40 year olds with underlying conditions including very serious ones like cancer who are terribly vulnerable, but overall this is targeting and killing mostly people over 70. It's a horrible thing to even say the word, but in a way we should be "thankful" for that. Imagine if this thing was killing like smallpox? A 30% death rate killing people from birth to 90. That would be unimaginable. We'd come through that too BTW, though the scars would be a lot deeper. And this bastard pox from Wuhan will likely head off something like that coming down the line with the resources and science being built up as we speak.