"Life in lockdown is worse than death." Really? I don't think there's much point in us discussing it further. I hated lockdown with a passion (for reasons I've explained earlier), but there… (View Post)

He already has. Life expectancy at birth is complex, and is not equivalent to the modal age of death, the median age of death, or the mean age of death at any given time, but an extrapolation of the … (View Post)

1 - That was the loss of life WITH lockdowns. Had it been allowed to spread freely prior to vaccines, obviously the loss of life would have been way way higher 2 - Life in lockdown wasn't equivalent … (View Post)

Influenza is very different and we've actually taken it into account with the scaling of the NHS. Covid admissions were different by multiple orders of magnitude. With apologies for the crudity, I pu… (View Post)

It's also the mode figure for a distribution which is not only the combination of three distributions with different variables but has a skew. You've got: infection to illness, plus illness to hospit… (View Post)