London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline

Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by rsynnott on Saturday May 23, 2020 @07:33PM (#23287603)

_Permanently totally isolating everyone over 60_ is clearly not feasible. In a scenario where it was allowed spread willy-nilly through the younger population, that isolation would have to be absolute.

And it is not like under 60s are all that safe. In the US 25% of deaths are under 65.

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by orangecat on Sunday May 24, 2020 @12:00AM (#23288967)

_Permanently totally isolating everyone over 60_ is clearly not feasible.

More or less infeasible than throwing millions of people out of work and forbidding everyone from seeing their friends and families?

And it is not like under 60s are all that safe. In the US 25% of deaths are under 65.

85% of the US population is under 65. So 15% of the population has 75% of the deaths, meaning a randomly selected person over 65 is 17 times more likely to have died than a random person under 65.

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