Countries ranked by life expectancy I

And I’m just wondering how this table might look in The Corona Period. In the wealthy countries the sick are kept alive far longer than they would live if they had the same affliction in a poor country..but now they’ll die from Covid.
In the poor countries the unhealthy die young, so perhaps their longevity may not alter by much.
Interesting looking at the table though and seeing the dramatic differences between the top and the bottom.

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From Rob C.

These poor people who are dying in old peoples homes and are not being included in the statistics, they are being brushed under the carpet;

thats a crappy funeral.

As I predicted then…

Death has become normal.
Care homes are far emptier as people die.
The top, age wise layer is being sliced off.
Wealth is being redistributed.

Big Pharma is in a panic.. repurposing existing drugs to try to fight Covid 19, knowing that otherwise loads of sick will die far too fast, depriving them of their huge incomes from drugs that overprolong the lives of the sick.

Some countries have largely ignored Corona, like Sweden, opting to maintain their economic prosperity. The countries that have locked down ( In varying degrees ) have suffered huge financial mal effects. Those countries will soon be told to resume commercial activities in order to limit huge unemployment. With huge unemployment comes social unrest and increased crime through poverty. That will be most evident in America, which has seen millions become suddenly jobless.
The European Union may well disintegrate, as those economies that have ‘ survived’ won’t want to prop up the ones that have collapsed. Notice that their have been no ‘ European standards for dealing with COVID 19 ‘. It’s been every country for itself – just as it’s been for centuries.
National health services have become ever so valued, at least for now, as have those services looked down upon, like cleaners, delivery drivers and carers. It won’t however make them any better paid going forward. Chance would be a fine thing. They’ll soon to relegated to unimportant, you’ll see.

Going forward, the unhealthy will continue to die, and people will realise the association between being physically healthy and not being so vulnerable to infectious diseases.
However, in this crisis there will have been an increase in food and alcohol consumption in the West, along with a reduction in exercise, with people therefore becoming more unhealthy and in doing so becoming more vulnerable. Because large sections of society are just too lazy and too gluttonous, they will opt to just hang on for a vaccine rather than behave in a manner that will increase their chances of living. Most people still think it is something that they just won’t catch and won’t have to deal with. However as restrictions are lifted, it’ll spread wildly again, until everyone has contracted it.
Because hospital capacity in the developed countries has been increased hugely, the affected will have somewhere to go at least, but the ‘ 1 in 3 that die once in hospital ‘ stat will continue, and millions will die unless that vaccine is found.
The virus will mutate and people will catch it again, with the vulnerable perhaps not surviving it next time around.

In the Third World there MAY be mass death, but perhaps it won’t be so dramatic, since in poverty the sick and old will have already died, leaving the most robust, who aren’t vulnerable anyway. In the Third World there are not loads of fat people, lots of hypertensive people, and lots of chronically sick. There’s not enough food to be obese and have high blood pressure, and there aren’t health systems to keep the people alive to allow long term sickness. The Third World won’t lock down because they don’t have enough money to have the luxury of not working for months. It’s the developed countries that will suffer most. They have sacrificed their economic prosperity in the pursuit of saving the old. That’s admirable, but there are dire consequences. Businesses will fold, there’ll be mass unemployment, property prices will fall dramatically, and the Chinese will swoop in to mop up the cheap businesses and property. We will become far more dependent on them than we can ever have predicted. The conspiracy theorists will say it was all planned, obviously. Interracial tension will increase, at the same time that we become dependent on them.

Let’s hope the Government here learns.
1. Plan for pandemics.
2. Build Manufacturing plants that make our own PPE.

3. Use the ingenuity of our own people to adapt their existing skills to make machines that we need, like respirators made by vacuum cleaner manufacturers.

Businesses have learned that using planes and cars to get people together in meetings isn’t essential. Air travel will shrink significantly as business will have adapted already. Home working will become the norm and pollution from travel will decrease. The environment will benefit from that, as well as from a decreased population. Tourism has almost stopped altogether, for now, but will resume to most countries, who will know that the visitors may well be infectious. That will matter little though, since the virus is everywhere, in every country. Trying to contain it is fruitless, unless you have population controls like China is capable of.
Only populations without civil liberties will obey government orders, and only Regime style governments will issue rules that can contain a contagious virus pandemic.

The Canadians have a good scale of social distancing – they say that if you can get hit by the person near you with a hockey stick then you’re too close. Simple.

I’m surviving in the Lockdown… of course it’s not the best time..but trust me I’ve definitely had worse! Catastrophic lifestyle changes are my thing after all.
There’s a local ( immediate estate ) Whatsapp group that I belong to, largely consisting of people whining about not having enough celery or ground fing turmeric … does anyone in Wales or the deprived counties even know what turmeric is…?!
It may not be a surprise then for you to read that I seem to have at the same time become both the scourge of and the source of amusement of, to group members, depending on their sense of humour or ‘sensitive petal’ness ‘ Either way, it amuses me!

Confinement gives me even more opportunity to exercise in my limited way, and watch the news obviously. The news is far more exciting than any film ( not in a positive way obviously ). I’ve also managed to source a way of getting every movie under the sun without great expense, which is good.

I live adjacent to the towpath here, and am bemused by the ongoing ignorance of the social distancing rules in place – so many stupid people out there. The authorities here are so lacking in actual authority, it’s shameful.
Britain will learn via its society’s ignorance.

Wendy has been her divine self. We can’t be sure but we both suspect we may have contracted The Big C. A good mate of mine, about the last person I socialised with, had almost certainly had it and pulled through, so there’s a fair chance I have … given my unusual sore throat I had.

Who knows though – impossible to say, isn’t it.

I watch though in almost morbid fascination to see how the likes of Unhealthy US fare… I reckon their deaths will go on and on and on..

As I said before then … survival of the fittest. Nature’s unemotional way.

I said to Wendy ‘ the mask debate goes on and on, doesn’t it ?’  Wendy looked at me in confusion and slight surprise….. until I realised what it sounded like I said …

On the BBC they have questions sent in by viewers about Corona ..A chap phoned in today to ask if he was particularly vulnerable to this virus because a bit ago he’d had a viral infection and only just recovered from it. At its peak he said that his CRP rate was 350. The doctor on the telly said that the CRP was a measure of inflammation inside the body, and that indicated that he must have been really ill, and that to be normal your CRP rate has to be under 10. He was told to be very careful not to contract it. 
About 15 years ago I went to Africa to do a canoe race. A week after I came back I started to feel unwell. My symptoms were fever ( felt really cold but had a high temperature ) and confusion.  I got myself to a hospital in Staines and said I thought I maybe had malaria. They tested me and said no, but I should go straight away to a specialist hospital – the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London. 
I recall getting myself there, in a bit of a haze, with a thick coat on with the hood up, despite it being a hot and sunny day. I remember lying down in the waiting area ( because I just needed to… ) and then a lady asking if I had an appointment. I said I didn’t but thought I needed to see a doctor. Eventually I did, and they took some blood and then saw me again about an hour later. The doctor seemed surprised that I told him that yes, I felt wiped out, but that I had was alone and had got to the hospital by myself. He examined me and talked to me, asking questions about where I’d been ( Africa ) and why I’d been there. He looked sort of bemused and then told me that my CRP rate was over 950. I asked if that was high and he said yes, it should be under 10, adding that he couldn’t believe I was still able to function at all, implying I should be dead I think. He said that I should definitely be in hospital. I asked him what the point of that was, as in what treatment I’d get. He said that they’d just watch me, as there was nothing they could do, since they didn’t have a diagnosis of whatever strange virus I had.  I said that if they weren’t going to actually do anything then I may as well just go home and go to bed then? He laughed and said that that was my choice, but that he thought I ought stay. 
Not being exactly in rational at the time I said I’d go home, where I spent 3 days sweating in bed, then felt ok. The doctor did phone and check on me, and told me not to exert myself for quite a while. 
Two weeks later though I stepped in to partner up with a lady called Rox whose partner had pulled out of the DW canoe race ( 125 miles non stop in a kayak through the night,  in the bitter cold that year  ). During the race I made a mistake and fell in the icy river at 2 am, which didn’t exactly help me .. but anyway Rox and I came first in the mixed division… 
I’d forgotten until today that I’ve got previous with strange incurable viruses…. tho arguably I’ve surely used up my 9 lives already. …?!