You’d make a poor healthcare statistician getting upset over words like that.
Does it upset you the UK government values a year of human life at about 30,000 GBP?
Does it upset you the UK government values a year of human life at about 30,000 GBP?
It was an invitation for clarification about what you meant.
How would you distinguish Covid from, say, murder, which also accelerates deaths by X years?
It's true that if the death rate is higher now, then the death rate may be lower in the future, but I'm not sure that's a useful way of thinking. If the death rate were 100% now, then the death rate would be 0% in the future. It all balances out, right? Except, that's not the way it works, because the dead never get their years or lives back.
We're all mortal and will eventually die sooner or later. But in most cases, later is much better than sooner.
I'd also mention that you probably wouldn't appreciate having 30,000X GBP stolen from you.
Sure, years of life are lost, but what kind of years? Someone in an old age home near the end of their life dying isn’t equivalent to a young child dying.
You can make good public health policy without measuring the gains and costs of any particular policy.
Saying “were going to save every single life no matter what” is a path to ruin.
> Sure, years of life are lost, but what kind of years?
No, I understand your point very well now. It is what I always thought it was.
Someday you may feel differently. If you live long enough, you may finally understand. But then it'll be too late, and the generations younger than you will also want to send you on "Logan's Run".
Usually you need to argue for a better theory than what's being done, not make quip remarks about a movie.
I'm not even arguing, either in good or bad faith.
How do you argue with someone who places no value on the lives of older people? My intention was, and still is, to end this conversation.
I suspected that you had a certain view, so I prompted you to clarify your view, and you did indeed clarify your view:
> Sure, years of life are lost, but what kind of years? Someone in an old age home near the end of their life dying isn’t equivalent to a young child dying.
By your own words, you devalue the lives of older people.
I think it was good for everyone to see what you really believe, but I don't expect to be able to change your mind, so there's nothing to argue.
The only "personal attack" in this thread was:
> You’d make a poor healthcare statistician getting upset over words like that.