"That fatality rate is only high because of all the care homes" As if the people who died in those homes were not people too
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We can acknowledge the steep age gradient in COVID-19 deaths - and the implications that this has for the health system - without ignoring the fact that this disease is calamitous for the older segments of our society
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The oversight from the regular national press is so unfortunate, in my opinion. They'd much rather cover people on beaches (who will mostly be fine, in spite of their ignorance) over the last few months than the people who are in by far the most danger.
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I'm not so generous to even use the word 'idea.' For it is done with such transparent and callous intent by a small but vocal minority. The goal is not to reveal some greater truth or understanding of the pandemic or biology of this pathogen. It is to serve selfish ends.
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It's perverse reasoning that puts subjective value judgement on life-years. Not unlike Prof. Ioannidis's comparison of loss young people (spanish flu) w/ "people with limited life expectancies" (covid19), as if one were more palatable than the other. https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/ …pic.twitter.com/uDGer4oAoV
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The definition of hecatomb is 'a great public sacrifice, (originally of a hundred oxen).- an extensive loss of life for some cause." Imagine the reaction if he had written that in plain language. Now we all know what it means.
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FFS

we are human. All life matters. 
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Agreed, but we should also interpret these deaths (and all COVID deaths) in the context of expected vs observed mortality.
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I just hope the people that feel this way realize one day they will be old also ,god willing they make it..it breaks my heart that the people who fought for the rights these people take for granted are the ones they are so willing to right off as if they don’t matter.
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Thank you for this. This is not a small reminder yet I keep seeing this narrative and I’m like a life is a life
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