I’ve basically done nothing extra selfless to help anyone, and nothing extra selfish to put people at extra risk. I guess I’m a neutral in World War C. This has me wondering what it would take to make me part of either the problem or solution on an acute collective action crisis.
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Tank sales not looking good either...
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it looks a lot better in terms of life years lost. the world wars killed a lot of young people. this... doesn't. covid is comparable to a few years of road fatalities below a certain age.
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This isn't really true. While soldiers were young, this 27k/day included civilian deaths, and genocide and area bombing affected all age groups.
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Important to note that some counties (eg Russia) had staggeringly large losses in WW2 compared to US. The death rate in the US is significantly higher (~2x?) than it was in WW2.
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the flip side is that the US deaths were almost entirely soldiers, so they were losing young people then, not old people as now
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