Many of our conveniences have blood prices; alcohol, 2.8m ppl/year. Cars, 1.3m. Excess food leading to obesity, 2.8m.
It's starting to hit a point where I think I'd pay covid's blood price for the convenience of returning to normal.
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You would pay it? Or are willing to have others pay it?
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with all of those things - cars, alcohol, obesity, those are prices other people pay, too
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Just pointing out that you personally are less likely (if you’re in normal health for your age) to pay the price, so I would downweigh your vote on this one
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The reason I'm not a big fan of these analogies is that people should drink less, the punishments for reckless drinking should be more harsh, driving should be more difficult and more expensive, and our cities should make it less convenient.
W shouldn't accept any of it.
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What's not normal? I go to bars on weekends, kid in school, can choose whether to mask indoors or not, office is back to on-site optional. There's people outside the nightclub at the end of the street having typical Friday drama, and our Covid hospitalization rate locally is okay
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Those should be regulated more but one notable difference (beyond the fact that COVID kills much more WITH strict regulation) is that they don’t have the risk of mutating to be far deadlier every moment or get exponentially deadlier the more the more common they are.
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Why is it always tunnel vision on deaths? What happens when you or someone you love needs urgent care at the hospital, but there's no room due to covid patient saturation? Lots of good points in this thread btw.
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There’s no exponential component in car deaths or drinking or eating fries. You eat more fries, you don’t make 10 other people obese. You’re comparing snapshots on functions that behave very differently over time.
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