thelostyear – www.musings.ch https://www.musings.ch Mon, 21 Dec 2020 06:09:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.musings.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-56884-200-2-32x32.png thelostyear – www.musings.ch https://www.musings.ch 32 32 COVID-19: The Real (Death) Toll https://www.musings.ch/2020/12/21/covid-19-the-real-death-toll/ Mon, 21 Dec 2020 06:09:16 +0000 https://www.musings.ch/?p=683 Continue reading COVID-19: The Real (Death) Toll]]> People are talking about “the lost year”. Based on that premise (which clearly isn’t correct), let’s do some simple math: Let’s say half of the world’s population had to change their lives drastically for a, per individual combined, period of 3 months. Let’s also assume the 7.7 billion estimate for the world population is correct, and that 71 years is a reasonable life expectancy estimate (as per wikipedia):

7 700 000 000 * .5 * 3 = 11 550 000 000 months lost

11 550 000 000 / 12 = 962 500 000 years lost

962 500 000 / 71 = 13 556 338 people lives lost

As of today, the WHO estimates 1.69 million people died of COVID-19.

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