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throwmeaway_pls | 5 years ago

I think you are catastrophizing. We’re talking about a mild respiratory infection in 99+% of people.

Censor me if you’d like. Every day fewer people care. There is nothing you can do to change that.

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ardy42|5 years ago

> We’re talking about a mild respiratory infection in 99+% of people.

It kills 1% to 3% of people that get it, and many of the others have a pretty bad time. The fact that many people can get it with only mild symptoms actually makes it worse, because it means the disease is less self-limiting, and overall more deadly.

And even if you got the statistic right, it's not telling the story you seem to want it to. A car that will only start 99 days out of 100 is not a reliable car. A car that doesn't kill its passengers 99% of the time is not safe car, and may actually be one of the most dangerous cars ever made.

> Censor me if you’d like. Every day fewer people care. There is nothing you can do to change that.

Yep. Stupid and selfish people are a fact of life, unfortunately. That's why the law needs punishments.

neekleer|5 years ago

CFR is a tentative metric. IFR is finalized at the end of a pandemic, and it was always suspected it could be between 0.1% and 0.41%. The WHO estimated 750,000,000 have had the virus. Reexamine your numbers. You don't seem to understand that Fauci was made infamous for suggesting a 3.4% mortality rate. That opened the door for economic-minded people like Scott Atlas to ask for a reality check.

It's incredible that you are taking the stance that the non-pharmaceutical interventions were not strict enough. Lockdowns were never a fully-vetted strategy since their interesting origins in 2006 under the Bush admin. They were likely to do untold harm because of this failing. Epidemiologists at large did not endorse any such policy. A UK official already admitted they went with the idea because they were in a panic. Consider this: you kind of sound like the dad that insists his daughter will never date because she will never be allowed to leave the house. You've outsmarted all those stupid and selfish teen boys.