Quote (Cowaz @ 7 Feb 2021 11:25)
I think this may be disproportionate. When you review the data from the COVID deaths a large trend appears that correlates age above that of retirement with mortality. So when reviewing the analyst value of US Citizen at 10million this would need to be re-evaluated and stratified based upon age of US Citizen. In other words what do the analysts value the life of a US Citizen at given age spectrums? So for example value at ages 20,25,30,35,40 .... up to 100.
Then this need to be quantified among the totality of deaths that have occurred within each age bracket
Aye, and average age of covid-related death is what, 82, or thereabouts? We always quote numbers like "65" just to avoid arguments. But literally, the average falls right around 82. At that point, the economic value of the person isn't high. Don't get me wrong, I'm not indicating anything about them "not mattering" or any other. Simply that the economic value of that person dying from covid would tend to fall very low. They've already provided the vast majority of the economic value they're going to provide.
I don't much agree with the idea of "You should pay us for our deaths from your cold" anyhow though. First, it's stupid. Second, if China agreed to such a thing? We'd just start developing new diseases to release via China upon ourselves any time the government wanted money. It's not that the US Government is any less bad than the Chinese government. It's just that they tend to be sneakier about it.