Those who follow the data and the science have known since March that Covid-19 is exponentially more serious and potentially lethal for those who are older with comorbities than it is for those who are younger and healthy.
Public Health Ontario published Infection Fatality Rates broken down by age, I blogged on it recently. For those under the age of 60 the IFR is 0.6% or less. It starts at 0.002% for those aged 0-9 and climbs to 0.6% for my age bracket which is 50 to 59.
In a nutshell those who are under the age of 60 have less than a 1% chance of dying from Covid. For those aged 80+ it jumps all the way to 9.3%, which isn't surprising when you consider that life expectancy in Canada is just over 82 years. Nobody lives forever of course.
Here's the info if you wish to verify, the IFR table is on page 9.
What the study conducted by Franklin-Templeton in tandem with Gallup found is that those who identify as Democrat are far more likely to believe that Covid is equally deadly for both younger and older people, here's a snippet.
Those who identify as Democrats tend to mistakenly overstate the risk of death from COVID-19 for younger people much more than Republicans.
A major factor appears to be where people get their news from, those who are ill informed tend to rely simply on social media posts, pictures and memes. I won't bore you further with my commentary, those who wish can learn more from the following linked article and by doing their own research.
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