Carlson recently bloviated that the median age-at-death for Covid was greater than median life expectancy. Yet another case of 'figures don't lie, but liars figure'.
Not that he just made an honest mistake, of course.
Median life expectancy at birth isn't what matters in the case of a Covid comparison. What matters is life expectancy of someone who's already kind of old; let's say 65.
- in 2018, men 65 have an expected life time of 18.1 years, or 83.1 in toto.
- the quoted median age (by Fucker) of Covid deaths in Ohio is 80.
- the median life expectancy (by Fucker) is 73; this is the 'at birth' value and thus includes (is reduced by) all early deaths.
Ergo, Fucker Carlson is a lying moron. It is also true that Delta is killing off non-Geezers unlike Original Covid and other variants.
What happens to capital when there's no more labor to replace?
Essays on topics economics: monopolists, oligopolists, and oligarchs aren't better decision-makers for the society just because they's rich and they ain't the damn gummint.
Gutting the Civil Service will put Trump where Garfield ended up
Leading an Insurrection is now an Official Act
The world is not linear.
-- Dr. McElhone/1974
Well, I'm going to do it, whether the women like it or not. I'm going to protect them.
-- The Orange Shitgibbon©anon./2024 [y'all get burkhas]
-- Dr. McElhone/1974
Well, I'm going to do it, whether the women like it or not. I'm going to protect them.
-- The Orange Shitgibbon©anon./2024 [y'all get burkhas]
There's a fine line between one person and 10 people with H5N1. By the time we've detected 10, it's probably too late.
-- Rick Bright/2024 [read the report, and this]
-- Rick Bright/2024 [read the report, and this]
Buck {Showalter] has always reminded me of something his father once told him:
"The jobs that are easy don't pay very well."
-- Mike Lupica/2023 [and don't qualify them to run anything; sub-GED knuckledraggers take note]
-- Mike Lupica/2023 [and don't qualify them to run anything; sub-GED knuckledraggers take note]
-- Marriner Eccles/1951
Election day's thought
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H. L. Menken/1915 [
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