ponyboy wrote:JasonB wrote:Covid hospitalizations per 100,000 for the past week:
0-4: 0.6
5-17: 0.3
18-29: 2.3
30-39: 2.7
40-49: 3.8
50-64: 6.0
65-74: 8.1
75-84: 13.4
85+: 11.6
Basic statistical manipulation. Here are the (politically) selected age ranges from that list:
0-4: Five years5-17: Thirteen years
18-29: Twelve years30-39: Ten years
40-49: Ten years
50-64: Fifteen years65-74: Ten years
75-84: Ten years
85+: Unknown
Oldest trick in the book. If you're being fair, your age ranges are the same, whether a five-year or a ten-year range, whatever.
The numbers in
bold indicate, then, what story someone wishes to tell. Underemphasize COVID-19's effect on the very young, overemphasize its effects on school aged kids, college aged kids, and those nearing retirement so that you can continue to shut down schools and businesses.
Why would they want to do that? Anyone's guess. So they can continue telling people what to do? Destroy the economy so Orange Man isn't re-elected? Disguise the overreaction? But it's purposeful -- these people are not the statistical morons they appear to be.
I posted more fair numbers in my graph on hospitalizations per 100K several posts above.
Here is the statistical manipulation you d!ck.
1) Go to the CDC website.
2) find the age data
3) notice that the age ranges are 0-4, 5-17, 18-49, 50-64, 65+
4) Think, wow, those ranges don't really tell me much.
5) Check the box on the website that breaks 18-49 and 65+ into smaller ranges.
6) Think, okay, that isn't perfect, but it is better.
Go back and look at the image I displayed. YOUR statistics are manipulating because they are cumulative from early in the pandemic when the young weren't infected. I am at least trying to illustrate recent data and being transparent about it. Projection is a [deleted], isn't it.
Like I said, around 10% of the hospitalizations are in the targeted age range. Don't know what percentage of those end up with long term issues.
The risk certainly isn't near as high as the 80 years old. And it isn't even near as high as the coaching staff. And the vast majority of the risk is away from the football field. But stop pretending like there is no risk at all to young people.
You believed and promoted the whole "it is only a NYC problem" and "it is going away in the summer" and "there is a magic protective bubble around Texas" and "Masks don't help" theories that have to this point killed 5K more people in Texas than would have otherwise. Now you are claiming the virus will magically disappear in August and not come back. TEXAS CITIES WANTED TO ENFORCE MASK WEARING WEEKS BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT SAID WE SHOULD DO IT, AND HE BARRED THEM FROM PUTTING RULES IN PLACE. TELLING PEOPLE TO WEAR MASKS HAD NO IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY, AND WOULD HAVE SAVED THOUSANDS OF LIVES.
You don't have to shut the economy down. But wearing masks in public places and indoors, and limiting time in indoor environments doesn't force the economy to shut down. You have already killed 5K people. Perhaps you should stop making asinine suggestions before that number grows higher.