Good point. Another point to keep in mind is that covid mortality was apparently closely associated with obesity. Anecdotally, most of the photos of people I saw or people I heard of who died with/from covid or were hospitalized, were obese. I think that's why it took a larger toll in the US than other countries (and Mexico, which also has a high obesity rate along with very poor diet)
Indeed. Researchers quickly zoomed in on that business of ACE-2 receptors as gateways for severe infection--and those are concentrated in adipose tissue, the report.
Meanwhile, South American countries like Peru seemed to have performed badly both in terms of sheer bean counts (fatalities attributed to COVID) and excess mortality. Puzzling.
Yeah there are some weird outliers. I would say anecdotally a lot of my Mexican friends had relatives die of/with covid. I also had one (40, extremely overweight, poor health, prior kidney transplant). With Mexico i have some ideas - high levels of obesity and truly terrible diet - Peru, I don't have a clue.
I was going to make the same point on obesity. Improving this can have both significant returns in terms of extending life for middle-aged people but also on quality of life, which is just as important as per the article.
Yes, taking pills (or getting exercise or whatever) are choice variables, and I was clumsily trying to relate a kind of "envelope theorem" result: Assume one does everything right (optimally). There's still no escaping exogenous factors (like age). Even if one does everything right, one will still eventually succumb to a condition (we all die), and one may still yet succumb to a given condition like COVID. But, merely counting up COVID fatalities amounts to nothing more than fetishizing COVID.
Indeed Covid mostly affected the elderly with other health issues. They might have been better protected by the Great Barrington approach which would have allowed them to isolate as the younger population overcame the illness - with or without IVM. Given natural immunity from getting infected and the fact revealed in the UK Challenge study that nearly half the younger people never became ill at all, nursing home residences might have been safer. Indeed, let it rip gave a shot a herd immunity where seniors would be at lower risk as the population spread slowed. That depended on data abut the "novel" virus and honesty from the the NIH who had a vested interest in the vaccine development. And the DoD was also invested in rapid vaccine development to prepare for a biowar.
The excess deaths are among the working age population, likely caused by the vaccine itself. We have no idea about the payload spike protein or the lipids in terms of potential hazards. We think we understand the immune system, but likely don't. Ed Dowd's book develops the notion of suddenly dead.
Good point. Another point to keep in mind is that covid mortality was apparently closely associated with obesity. Anecdotally, most of the photos of people I saw or people I heard of who died with/from covid or were hospitalized, were obese. I think that's why it took a larger toll in the US than other countries (and Mexico, which also has a high obesity rate along with very poor diet)
Indeed. Researchers quickly zoomed in on that business of ACE-2 receptors as gateways for severe infection--and those are concentrated in adipose tissue, the report.
Meanwhile, South American countries like Peru seemed to have performed badly both in terms of sheer bean counts (fatalities attributed to COVID) and excess mortality. Puzzling.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline?tab=chart&country=PER~MEX~USA~ISR~BOL~ECU~SWE~GBR~CAN~ESP~ITA
Yeah there are some weird outliers. I would say anecdotally a lot of my Mexican friends had relatives die of/with covid. I also had one (40, extremely overweight, poor health, prior kidney transplant). With Mexico i have some ideas - high levels of obesity and truly terrible diet - Peru, I don't have a clue.
I was going to make the same point on obesity. Improving this can have both significant returns in terms of extending life for middle-aged people but also on quality of life, which is just as important as per the article.
Yes, taking pills (or getting exercise or whatever) are choice variables, and I was clumsily trying to relate a kind of "envelope theorem" result: Assume one does everything right (optimally). There's still no escaping exogenous factors (like age). Even if one does everything right, one will still eventually succumb to a condition (we all die), and one may still yet succumb to a given condition like COVID. But, merely counting up COVID fatalities amounts to nothing more than fetishizing COVID.
Indeed Covid mostly affected the elderly with other health issues. They might have been better protected by the Great Barrington approach which would have allowed them to isolate as the younger population overcame the illness - with or without IVM. Given natural immunity from getting infected and the fact revealed in the UK Challenge study that nearly half the younger people never became ill at all, nursing home residences might have been safer. Indeed, let it rip gave a shot a herd immunity where seniors would be at lower risk as the population spread slowed. That depended on data abut the "novel" virus and honesty from the the NIH who had a vested interest in the vaccine development. And the DoD was also invested in rapid vaccine development to prepare for a biowar.
The excess deaths are among the working age population, likely caused by the vaccine itself. We have no idea about the payload spike protein or the lipids in terms of potential hazards. We think we understand the immune system, but likely don't. Ed Dowd's book develops the notion of suddenly dead.