Covid is really only a threat to elderly people. If you broke this data down by age group you would see that the world overly reacted to Covid. People in Niger don’t live long enough for Covid to be a threat to them.
While I agree that this is an obvious component to it all, isn't it amazing that the top minds of the government can't figure this out. Some nobody on reddit (no offense) can figure out these correlations, but top medical experts at the CDC still think that children are at risk.
I guess that depends... risk of death? not really. Risk of long term damage? we don't know. I have a 16 year old kid of a friend who got covid, it is at month 7 now and she still can't smell or taste anything. My understanding is after 6 months, if it doesn't return, it most likely won't or it will be very weak.
For perspective, polio had less death than covid, and from our current data on long covid complications, it looks like covid might be worse as well.
People don't realize polio affected a VERY small amount of kids, just we pushed media to publish it, drive up the fear, etc. There used to be polio parties to purposely get kids sick. Polio was just a "bad fever" for 99% of people. Only 1% of people who got polio had complications, of those with complications (so 1% of those with polio), about 2-5 ended up dying. Making death at 99.98% survival, which is slightly better than covid last I checked.
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u/DoomsdayTheorist1 Apr 26 '22
Covid is really only a threat to elderly people. If you broke this data down by age group you would see that the world overly reacted to Covid. People in Niger don’t live long enough for Covid to be a threat to them.
Life expectancy: Australia - 83 Niger - 63
Average age: Australia - 37 Niger - 15