Re: age of senators

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

This math doesn't look right to me.  Seems like 2% would be 2 senators,
right?

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 08:29:44 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > I think we were talking about this, how many Sens should die
 > 
 > A.T. from Washington, D.C., writes: Apropos your "Republicans in 
 > Denial" piece, it occurred to me to find out how many Senators are 
 > over age 60: 66 (50 men and 16 women) by my count of the Wikipedia 
 > page. If we assume that half of them will get COVID-19, and that 2/3 
 > of the deaths are in the over-60 group, as numerous media reports 
 > have suggested, and that the death rate for the population as a 
 > whole will be about 2%, you get something like five or so Senators 
 > will die of COVID-19.
 > 
 > Will the Senators think this is trivial then?