Roy Twing wrote:We all know that many deaths that are attributed to the virus are people in care homes and the like who would have died anyway.
Surely the only statistic that matters is, on statistical average, how many more people per day are dying than usual?
Agreed, Roy.
One stat I have yet to read is the average age of Covid victims in the UK.
I'd also be very keen to know the death rate according to age.
I'm guessing that very few people under 50 have died, and that the vast majority of fatalities are 65+?
My sister-in-law is a nurse (late 30s) and has already gone onto WhatsApp and said if her and her husband die, will one of us look after her children? She's talking like catching this thing is a death sentence, when the mortality rate is something like 3%. The media have whipped this up, too, as if we were dealing with smallpox etc