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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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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When people say, "you're worried about COVID, but cars kill a million people a year" it's like, yeah, and that's really stupid. Why do we do that? We shouldn't do that.
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I think I disagree, like in general I'd prefer a higher risk society, but I respect the consistency of your position
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What's interesting to me is that when you say, "in general I'd prefer a higher risk society" I find myself nodding in agreement, but then when I imagine specifics I tend to think otherwise
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the problem is, in a "higher risk society", most of the people taking the risks are not doing so voluntarily
that's why I prefer a low risk society
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