Edit: Free from memory of a spanish flu documentary I watched the other day: "As I entered the train, the conductor fell dead on floor. As the journey went on, I saw two more passengers die. Then the train stopped. The loco pilot had died, and I walked the rest of the way home."
Spanish flu was some heavy shit. With young healthy people dying the first day of symptoms.
I don't mean that 'smoking is good for you', but that those who are going to live long, will live long no matter what their personal habits are. Thus when you look at really old people, those that drink / smoke are over-represented. They are statistical outliers of course...
And we know that 90% of all Covid cases are occuring in areas in a temp zone of 37-64 degrees. Covid hates higher temperatures, as with influenza. The media refuses to report the facts: not all locations are equally susceptible. It's why NY and NJ have 50% of all US cases now. It's why the Phoenix metro of five million people, or the states of Nevada or New Mexico or Texas are not seeing the pandemic. It's why so many of Florida's cases are imported. It's why when you cross below roughly the Pennsylvania line, cases per capita plunge. It's why DC and Baltimore aren't drowning in cases, while NYC is (check out the lack of cases and hospitalizations in Delaware and Virginia). It's why the bay area, despite its near 8m population, has so few cases (which the media breathlessly touts as suddenly about to explode into the trillions - it's not going to happen). It's why Mexico, the rest of Latin America, and sub saharan Africa (as well as hot climates in Asia, including within China), are not seeing the pandemic in the numbers that were expected. It's why NYC, Milan, and Wuhan got hit so hard. It's the climates.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/12/home-office-...
Like a coin that lands on head 5 times on a road. Nothing special about the coin. It just happens sometimes.
And I'm talking about countries with the same level of wealth (more or less)
Japan has 2.5 times more centenaries as a percentage of the population than US
but in the current situation most people in that age range are dying. he survived.
isn't it worth talking about or giving it a thought?
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20625547
The post you linked does not look very reliable
Moreover I'm not talking about super centenaries, but basic life expectancy
People who live more in general have probably better genes, we don't care how many die if we are counting those that survive longer than average
In US life expectancy is very low for being a developed country
And we can't really say that crime rate or frauds are higher in Okinawa than in Los Angeles
Nobody would believe that
Btw, what about France?