On: Canada, April: Under-65 excess mortality exceeds u...

[betwixthewires]

It is a good metric, but it comes off a bit callously, and if you're going to get into the weeds there you might need to consider that one persons years are not used as well as others by many metrics, so how do you calculate that? Income per year on average? Children reared? Discretionary spending as a judge to how well someone enjoyed their life?

I'd say stopping at number of deaths is a better metric.

[ummonk → betwixthewires]

If you think a 70 year old dying is anywhere near as bad as a 10 year old dying, I don't know what to say to you.

[wyager → betwixthewires]

QALY isn’t perfect (or even especially good), but it’s clearly better than number of deaths.

[betwixthewires → wyager]

If it's so clear why don't you draw a picture as to why.

[wyager → betwixthewires]

Because saving someone who’s 95 years old and about to keel over isn’t, on expectation, as valuable as saving someone who’s 5 years old and has a whole life ahead of them.