At some level, we're all okay with trading some (sufficiently low) risk of death, for some (sufficiently high) quality of life.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @aintasenatorson and
The only debate is over where, EXACTLY, the trade-off points are. But everyone puts them somewhere—however much they bluster to the contrary
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"You aren't afraid of a meteor falling from the sky and striking you in the head every time you go outside are you? Okay, so let me shoot this gun at you and stop being a big baby"
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As I was saying: I was not defending any particular trade-off point; merely pointing out that they exist.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @arthur_affect and
As I said at the outset, this an exercise in trying to understand the opinions of people who do not already agree with you about everything
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @arthur_affect and
Did you get the impression Arthur doesn't understand the opinions of others just because he vehemently disagrees with them? Maybe he does understand them, and that is why he disagrees so vehemently?
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Replying to @RayTski @arthur_affect and
What he's manifestly unable to do is quarantine his disagreement on separate issues.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
One gets a full-blast broadcast of Chu's entire weltanschauung, whatever the initial topic was.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
Do you understand why the "controlled burn" strategy of allowing infections to proceed among the low risk population to maintain hospital capacity for a later peak, as proposed in the UK and practiced on Sweden, *depends* on universal health care
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
Not just that it would be nice to have universal health care because universal health care is nice The "controlled burn" strategy completely relies on the idea of keeping a stable steady rate of taste usage of the medical system You can't do that with an uninsured population
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I know you may experience this as just a "blast of my Weltanschauung", because you are stupid, but I really did try to explain this at great length and I don't know how to break it down into simpler chunks
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
Also, is everyone forgetting exponentials? Everywhere else we trade off lives for economy - e.g. traffic - the increases are roughly linear. And non-contagious. The controlled burn strategy has inherent risks which are not fully understood and can go bad fast, esp without UHC.
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