Continuing on from last week’s blog, we all respect the role of facts.
Emotions make us blind to many things – and that leads to blindly following media and other mass hysteric populist reports.
What our media didn’t outline was the number of excess deaths – deaths beyond what would normally happen if there were not a pandemic. People do die – it is a fact of life. In 2017 2,813,503 people died in the US. Of that number 2,067,404 were over age 65! That translates to about 74% of deaths in the US – before COVID even – were persons over age 65.
Raw numbers don’t tell the whole story. New York City became the “poster child” but that wasn’t a true picture in a country of 331,000,000 people and 3.8 million square miles. In the rest of the US excess deaths were under 10% above normal. Without a doubt, the majority of those were elderly with co-morbidities.
At some point in your life, you have a strong probability that you will be diagnosed with multiple diseases or issues. As a thinking person you realize that you can’t live forever with that much “wrong”. After all you are mortal right?
