Thanks to @stephenjduckett. A low fatality rate for a disease = thousands of deaths with mass infection. But…

Thanks to @stephenjduckett. A low fatality rate for a disease = thousands of deaths with mass infection. But also older people dying of Covid may only lose a handful of years of lifespan, individually, but aggregated it’s thousands of years of lost life. https://t.co/rfYSim316K https://t.co/YXw3b2J472

(Noting this is technically those with ‘underlying conditions’, of any age. Same argument applies.)