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Re: Objectively intelligent.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
This disease only has a 2% death rate. Worst case scenario we have a few thousand deaths. Mostly old and infirm people. Kids don't seem to be impacted much by it. So I don't think you'll see a significant number of dead kids, which would the only type of deaths shocking enough to get people angry.
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I don't think you've thought this through. The flu is less deadly, and kills many times more people than that. People accept that risk because they are familiar with the flu. People are scared of Covid-19 because it's new. Think about traffic accidents and airplane accidents. People accept the steady toll from auto accidents, but if an equal number of people died in airplane accidents you'd have front-page stories and lots of people not flying. Now suppose flying was 20x likelier to kill you -- would anyone fly? People are not rational about risk, and a new disease is scary.
eta: Also, this thread. Current systems handle the flu, but not this.
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Last edited by Tyrone Slothrop; 03-02-2020 at 05:51 PM..
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