After 27 months, I know of literally no one younger than 40 who was even hospitalized due to Covid-19. I know a total of 5 people who were briefly hospitalized from it, all older than 60. I know of (very elderly family members of acquaintances) 4 people who died from it.
I live in an area where there are 3M people within a radius of 50 miles. We had no mask mandates, no lockdowns.
I keep hearing how much Covid has affected/dangerous for the younger populace (necessity for vaccination, tele-education, school masking, etc…) but from my own experience, I didn’t see it.
And by remotely and possibly dangerous, I mean more of a risk of death than any other possible event or disease that can happen to healthy people in that age group.
But you can’t, because that data does not exist. Covid was simply not dangerous for healthy people under 40.
[0] "And for those ages 15 to 24 and 25 to 34, COVID-19 wasn't in the top five in 2020 but ranked as the fourth leading cause of death in both age groups in 2021." - https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/covid-was-the-leadin...
I don't know what qualifies technically as a hysteria, but locking people in their homes for months for fear of something less dangerous than a typical daily activity sounds like a promising candidate.
The important number is what percentage of all deaths in the <40 age group was Covid 19. Just saying it was fourth, well, that’s just trying to ascribe significance over what might be an insignificant number…just for the purpose of creating alarm to justify an unpopular and frankly damaging mitigation strategy.
[0] Study https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
[1] Table (long link!) https://cdn.jamanetwork.com/ama/content_public/journal/intem...
>> Covid has affected and killed enough "younger" people - by which I mean folks younger than 40
Which as a editorial on this comment from the commenter above them:
>>> A properly functioning society does not sacrifice the future of its young to protect the old.
If you don’t like how I framed the question, perhaps do this instead—provide the statistics that tell us where Covid sits on the danger and mortality scale for healthy people under 40. Then tell us why you think that rate of danger warrant those “protective” measures that adversely affected the young.
I don’t think Covid was a threat that warranted the sacrifice of the young to protect the old and I think the stats prove that out.
Liver disease kills more 35-44 year olds according to the amac.us source.
https://freopp.org/comparing-the-risk-of-death-from-covid-19...
https://amac.us/estimating-the-risk-of-death-from-covid-19-v...
I expect the number of younger people dying from missed cancer screenings etc. from Covid policies is higher.
The rate of mental health referrals amongst young people also surged.
https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/the-pandemic-has-...
If that were true, it would have happened everywhere. If we steelman the COVID policy case by looking at Sweden, which should theoretically be the worst hit place, what we see is that there was no excess death for under 75s in 2020.
There have been many claims that COVID kills the young. But these claims must be exaggerated because it doesn't show up in the data, at least not for Europe. If we look at Euromomo, so incorporating countries with far harsher restrictions and worse healthcare systems, then we also cannot see any mortality under 40:
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
The first age range where mortality is seen is 45-64 years. But even there, we are talking about a change from ~9k deaths a week (normal) to ~11k deaths a week in each wave, which for a place the size of Europe is hardly a crisis level change.
COVID killed pretty much NONE people under 40 unless they had other serious health issues, which were really cause of their death.
Official Czech (11M population) gov stats for ALL people who were COVID POSITIVE when they died (it just means they died positive in those 2+ years, not that COVID caused their death):
age group - total number
0–14 - 9
15–24 - 10
25–34 - 82
35–44 - 278
https://onemocneni-aktualne.mzcr.cz/covid-19/prehledy-khs
So massive number of deaths - 379 people younger than 44 in two years in 11M country who died while tested positive including (mostly) terminally ill patients, car accidents etc. You better don't wanna know how many people under 44 died from other causes in last two years.
Press X to doubt (the point being argued).
Covid has affected and killed enough "younger" people - by which I mean folks younger than 40. And not to forget long covid's disastrous effects on all ages.
I agree that the entire situation could have been better managed (for example it took till December 2020 for the Dutch gov to mandate masks in public areas, the night curfew timings were odd), but I disagree that a proper thorough response wasn't required.