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Re:Canadians fly south for shot as US demand falls by whimsicalism on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @07:09PM (#27057044)
Estimates for average life lost per covid death is around ~15 years. Sure, it killed plenty of old people, but it also killed plenty of middle aged/older middle aged people that had plenty of time left.

But I'll cede to you that YLL is also a good metric. When comparing two developed nations like Canada and US, most of the difference there will probably be explained by per capita deaths though.

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Re:Canadians fly south for shot as US demand falls by ryandrake on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @07:33PM (#27057271)
As someone getting up there in age, it's kind of shocking how cavalier a few people seem to be about old people dying from COVID. "Close to death's door?" Years of Life Lost as a measurement? Really? It's like we're living in Logan's Run. My parents are elderly but they might just live for 25 more years--who knows? If they or someone else's grandparents were to die of COVID it would be no less tragic than if a 30 year old died of it.
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Re:Canadians fly south for shot as US demand falls by whimsicalism on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @07:38PM (#27057323)
I don't think we should be cavalier about the deaths of elderly and I generally agree with you about the rhetoric, but I can't say I really agree about the "no less tragic" comment.
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Re:Canadians fly south for shot as US demand falls by refurb on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @08:23PM (#27057641)
I think the point is we have up to 80,000 flu deaths each year in the US. If Covid never happened and 80,000 people died of the flu nobody would bat an eye.
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Re:Canadians fly south for shot as US demand falls by raydev on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @10:43PM (#27058587)
Yes, because we knew how to deal with 80k. Suddenly we had to deal with 400k, which is a much larger number.
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Re:Canadians fly south for shot as US demand falls by maxerickson on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @10:07PM (#27058347)
You talk like the big ongoing campaign to increase flu vaccination rates is some sort of accident.
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Re:Canadians fly south for shot as US demand falls by jdhn on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @07:22PM (#27057181)
>Estimates for average life lost per covid death is around ~15 years

Source?

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Re:Canadians fly south for shot as US demand falls by whimsicalism on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @07:27PM (#27057228)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83040-3

I also saw a US specific article but can't find it off the top of my head.

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