The below is wrong at several levels. In England and Wales, 65,000 aged 65+ have died with it, plus over 7,400 working age people. Many had prior medical conditions, but we don't hold their lives to be valueless because Britain isn't a fascist state.
https://twitter.com/PaulEmbery/status/1342780150358962176
About one in ten had no prior conditions. But having a prior condition doesn't mean you are about to die! EG about 10,000 had diabetes. Theresa May has it and was Prime Minister! A study by Glasgow Uni suggested the average victim would have had another ten years - that's a lot.
Also: all that is *with* social distancing. Without it many more would have died as health services were overwhelmed.
To see what happens if you do nothing, look at Manaus, Brazil, where excavators dug huge trenches for bodies dumped in mass graves.
theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
To see what happens if you do nothing, look at Manaus, Brazil, where excavators dug huge trenches for bodies dumped in mass graves.
theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
Over 3,000 people who died with it and had a "prior condition" had Asthma. For over 2,000 their "prior condition" was a mental health condition or learning difficulties.
To just write them off as valueless is beyond belief.
To just write them off as valueless is beyond belief.
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