Rava, nowhere that I have seen does it say that women, children, and the elderly don’t count for the numerator in this deadly equation. It says they don’t count for the denominator. That’s why I wrote that if we assume working-age men are 1/4 of the population then the threshold for a plague is a daily death rate of approximately 1/2,000, or 50/100,000. But those deaths can be those of women, children, and elderly men.
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