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The question would be how does that balance against "productive" years, where they're paying taxes, their work increases the GDP etc.



According to this UK COVID Risk Calculator:

https://qcovid.org/Calculation

An average healthy White British male of 66 years (retirement age) has a hospitalisation risk of 1 in 831; death risk of 1 in 2786.

By contrast the yearly risk of death in that age bracket generally, from any cause, is 1 in 42:

http://www.bandolier.org.uk/booth/Risk/dyingage.html

COVID is accelerating deaths from existing comorbidities or very old age; based on this data it is not felling healthy workers.




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