infinity ag said:
Keegan99 said:
* without normalizing for population, thus rendering it quantitatively meaningless
It is not meaningless as a life lost is a life lost. Regardless of if was 1 life in 10 or 1 life in 100.
That said, both parameters are important. Normalizing gives you the magnitude in relation to the population and pleases statisticians, but raw count is more personal and is of concern to everyday people.
Well it certainly shouldn't be to the vast, vast majority. There are 7 billion people in the world, and 333 million in the US. If we tracked everything daily, and publicized it, you could be afraid of many things every year for the rest of your life rather than going out and living.
The world population is growing exponentially. the average age of death is minimally changed, if at all, by covid, throughout all of this. It's sad. I wish it didn't happen. Beyond that? Concern, devastation? Not the virus itself. The fallout from the stuff that came along with it is far more so devastating and a concern to some of us.