Google - this is publicly available data.
Life expectancy comes from WHO, average age from CDC stats etc etc etc.
If you don't put any work in to find this out for yourself, you be likely to harbour frankly ridiculous ideas like C19 is more deadly than SP flu. In what world is 1m deaths of mostly elderly people worse than 50m of mostly young people? The whole idea is ludicrous from the start, surely you can recognise that?
An impossible and meaningless exercise but sure you can imagine if you want , you'll still come to the same conclusion though.
We have to deal with actual realities not what if's.
How about, 'what if' the sugar industry hadn't contributed so dramatically to obesity and diabetes in the US, how many fewer people would have died of Covid? A pointless debate....
I did go through various science based journals and articles as well.
Well, um, for or against (not meant to be disrespectful) your degree in science, I'm backed by medical science. That's to say, I graduated from medical school ( MBBS) and would never say anything merely based on googled articles.
But this is not JUST a medical crisis. It's also an economic and social crisis. And being a doctor does not give one a degree in epidemiological studies (unless you have that too). I've been an economic consultant for more than 20 years and find the level of analysis of the "trilemma" of heath/economic/social impacts to be poorly managed to the extent of not even recognised in HK. At least some other countries pay some attention to the whole spectrum of impacts.
The other "trilemma" issue I have dealt with regularly over the last 10 years is the environment. Climate change vs economic impacts vs social desire for secure energy/transport. It took many years before any kind of balance became apparent there, and even now climate change dominates in some countries (Europe) while economic impacts/desire for energy and transport security dominates in others (typically lower income countries).
Incredibly confused by the direction of this thread.
Anyone care to summarize the salient points?
Or would that just be like pissing in the wind?
Yup it's a major contributor to both premature death and quality of life, we know that already, but it's hardly worthwhile to speculate what the covid situation would be like if not for the sugar industry, that's not the same at all as assessing obesity and diabetes as risk factors (which are highly relevant.)
How about we imagine we don't have heart bypass operations or stents, or blood thinning medication, how many more would die of heart disease?