Er, compare how many Americans died of covid to the number that died in car accidents last year. You're gunna be surprised.
Lifetime odds of dying in a car accident is 1%. Far higher for being injured. So yes. And so would everyone else. Apparently. And that's actually a good comparison for acceptable risk level https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-overview/odds-of-dying/data-details/ …https://twitter.com/ThatMorph/status/1439239926168657924 …
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Dr Peterson thank you for making this point. Too many people seem to ignore the fact that we would probably willingly force vaccines if the death rate was say 10%. But the point is that at 10% you wouldn't have to force people.
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Not sure about that. If you leave out things like infant mortality etc., I don't think there was any practice everyone was doing before cars that had that much risk; the *total* probability of accidental death is up by a lot, by historical standards, as far as I can tell.
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Drowning is one of the largest causes of accidental death and probably was so historically, but it is still much less frequent than car accidents.
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Prof. Peterson, I know you have an appreciation of nuance in statistics but car accidents are not a multiplicative risk (convex, exponential), meaning that if you have a car accident the risk of your neighbour getting in a car accident doesn’t increase.
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That’s not the case with pandemics. There’s also the hidden risks of mutations becoming more lethal, long covid etc.. I am not saying we should or shouldn’t live in fear.. It’s just not the right statistical comparison.
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My grandmother so oso overprotective it was crazy, so eventually I told her that she risked breaking a leg if she got out of bed and when she then considered staying in it I added that she also risked spinal and other ailments if she stayed in bed.
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