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Aella
@Aella_Girl
My personal risk assessment strategy is to do something like: if my chance of car accident is 1/450 per year, would I pay one car accident in order to get 450 years of driving? If yes, then I drive. I do this for nearly all my risk assessments and I'm wondering how common it is.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
So for coronavirus, what's the min amount of parties or large events I'd pay 1 coronavirus infection to attend? Probably something like 50. So, roughly, coronavirus risk has to be greater than 1/50 before I won't attend an event.
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Paul Tenny
@pwtenny
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@Aella_Girl
With a car accident, you and at most a few other people would pay a price for it. With a highly communicable disease, you wouldn't just pay the price for being infected, you'd also be infecting countless others and forcing them to pay a price as well. Though.
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DeKoster
@kets70
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@Aella_Girl
well, there's the community angle too. You are not just sick, you are also a vector. Same way, you could kill other people in the car accident. for some reason, those count stronger for me.
Harriet
@Harriet21789542
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@Aella_Girl
That is close to my rule for common cold. 10 parties ~ 1 cold. If I get coronavirus at a party, then my attendance cost somebody else ~3 years of life, I likely killed somebody. I am at loss how many parties would outweight that guilt.
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