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    Quote Originally Posted by Derby Tup View Post
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    Here's an extract from a website:

    As of 2019, the breakdown by age looks like this:

    Baby Boomers: Baby boomers were born between 1944 and 1964. They're current between 56-76 years old (76 million in U.S.)

    Gen X: Gen X was born between 1965 - 1980 and are currently between 41-55 years old (82 million people in U.S.)

    Gen Y: Gen Y, or Millennials, were born between 1981 and 1996. They are currently between 26-40 years old.

    Gen Y.1 = 25-29 years old (31 million people in U.S.)

    Gen Y.2 = 29-39 (42 million people in U.S.)

    Gen Z: Gen Z is the newest generation to be named and were born between 1995 and 2015. They are currently between 5-25 years old (nearly 74 million in U.S.)
    Like with star signs, once you know what group you're in, you realise you're exactly the same as everyone else in these groups and that's the beauty of such arbitrary labels.

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    I shudder at the thought of describing myself as a Millennial...!

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    Wheeze looks like you need to add the 30s and 40s to your age group for isolation and persecution.

    What do the scientists say about shielding?
    Risk factors are complicated, with age being just one of the important ones to be considered.

    Professor Sarah Harper, Clore Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford, raised gender as a contributing factor, saying: “Women have a lower all-cause mortality risk than men at all ages”.

    Prof Harper also questioned segmenting the group at 50. ”The all-cause mortality risk actually increases by 70-80 per cent between our 30s and 40s and only by 40-50 per cent between our 40s and 50s.”

    Professor Sheila Bird, formerly programme leader of the MRC Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge, called for ”transparency and peer-review” of risk-score evaluation before it is deployed nationwide.

    She said individuals can lower their risk by adhering ”to social distancing, hand-washing, mask-wearing” among other actions.


    Makes far more sense to instill the use of common sense on the folk that feel they are immune to the virus
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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnK View Post
    Makes far more sense to instill the use of common sense on the folk that feel they are immune to the virus
    Agree, but its a vain hope. You will be far more likely to keep those things up if you are identified as a vulnerable group. Stats are a multi-edged weapon. I prefer to stick to big, simple numbers. In the first wave, the stats show that most deaths occurred in the over 80s or those with other problems. Risk of death lessened with age and became largely irrelevant under 45. Play to the big numbers for the best result.
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