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0 pointsdisambiguation4y ago0 comments

Covid is a one time risk. Overtime the average risk of death goes to zero.

People's brains were already broken. People are bad at statistical risk.

People are afraid of flying despite driving be much more dangerous.

https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa-cause-of-death-by-ag...

https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/leading_causes_of_dea...

Under the age of 24, vehicle fatalities, suicide, and homicide lead in >3k deaths each year.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/fentanyl-overdoses-leading-cause-...

Meanwhile, 18-45 79k have died from fentanyl overdoses in the past 2 years vs. ~50k covid deaths in that time frame.

You don't need to imagine 3k deaths being acceptable, it's in the data for all to see.

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epistasis4y ago

Yeah, fentanyl is terrible! So are cars, and I spend most of my non-family, non-work time advocating for city planning that will let people who chose so to avoid cars.

That does not lessen the impact of 3000 deaths among people who did not take on that risk.

disambiguationOP4y ago

What kind of plans do you advocate for?

Are any of them on the order of magnitude of measures we've taken against covid?

epistasis4y ago

The level of car blindness in the US is at such insane levels that any advocacy for living that isn't car dependent is pretty much a completely radical take that people reject out of hand. So political movement is often limited more by what is possible rather than what the right course of action is.

But these are not equivalent things, cars are nowhere near as deadly as Covid, this pandemic is likely going to cause 25 years' worth of car deaths because of a subset of the population is too morally and logically weak to adopt small measures.

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epistasis4y ago

Yeah, fentanyl is terrible! So are cars, and I spend most of my non-family, non-work time advocating for city planning that will let people who chose so to avoid cars.

That does not lessen the impact of 3000 deaths among people who did not take on that risk.

disambiguationOP4y ago

What kind of plans do you advocate for?

Are any of them on the order of magnitude of measures we've taken against covid?

epistasis4y ago

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