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David Wallace-Wells on Empowering the Future

The Daily Stoic

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What's the Age Skew?

The age skew is so profound. I mean, your risk doubles every eight years about. Someone who's in their 80s is like thousands of times more at risk of death than someone in their 20s. And yet, all through the beginning of the pandemic, we were given such a, you know, a sense of uniform threat and uniform risk. It was ultimately a distortion of the story that anybody looking at the data could follow themselves.

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