Jay Bhattacharya on the uneven distribution of Covid costs

The harms of COVID are very unevenly distributed.  If you're over 70, the survival rate is something like 95%. If you're under 70, it's something like 99.95%.  That means that the lockdown is going to harm, on net, people that are young.  Because there's no benefit for them for it.  Just on net it's harm.  It may protect older people - I actually have some doubts about that as well, but that's at its best case.  So you end up saying, "Let's harm young people or non-vulnerable people for four more months."  So when I hear that, that's what I hear, until we get a vaccine.  No.  That's a mistake.

~ Jay Bhattacharya, "Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya on the Lockdown Fiasco," The Tom Woods Show, December 7, 2020