An example of confining argument within boundaries of meaninglessness. Life in this context reminds me of Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”. A soul was a count measure of serfs (slaves). /1
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Dead souls were serfs that died but were still counter in property registers. The use of life in coronavirus population medicine serves a similar purpose. Nobody cares about individual people and their death and meaning of death in context of their stage in life. /2
The primary purpose is manipulation of statistical entities. Years of life lost. Lives lost. Death excess. Hypothetical theoreticals. /3
In traditional pre-population medicine, when a person died, a family and their community mouthed their death. Death was timely. Or not. Depending on circumstances and if it made sense./4
Nobody half a globe away made a virtuous drama performance on the account of deaths of unknown hubs reads of dead souls. It would be called hypocrisy. /5
The problem of population medicine is failing this one person right in front of you here and now. /6
Mouthed is meant to be mourned.
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