Hello, Welcome to Known Unknowns, a newsletter where there’s no free lunch or retroactive taxes. What to do about schools There was extraordinary coverage of an extraordinary study this week. JAMA published an article that estimates COVID-19 has similar death rates as the 1918 flu. What’s extraordinary about the coverage of the article is that it fails to mention the fact that the 1918 flu mostly killed people under 30, while COVID-19 kills mostly people over 70 – and the fact it does not merit any mention says a lot about how our current society and how we value life (or some lives, we tend to be indifferent when it comes to poor people in other countries--but I digress).
Known Unknowns
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Hello, Welcome to Known Unknowns, a newsletter where there’s no free lunch or retroactive taxes. What to do about schools There was extraordinary coverage of an extraordinary study this week. JAMA published an article that estimates COVID-19 has similar death rates as the 1918 flu. What’s extraordinary about the coverage of the article is that it fails to mention the fact that the 1918 flu mostly killed people under 30, while COVID-19 kills mostly people over 70 – and the fact it does not merit any mention says a lot about how our current society and how we value life (or some lives, we tend to be indifferent when it comes to poor people in other countries--but I digress).