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Originally Posted by Acajack
Our relationship with death and tolerance for risk has evolved since the pandemics of legend. Especially in western countries.
Everyone expects that they and their loved ones will live to about 80 now, barring some freak bad luck.
Stuff like COVID is outside of people's frame of reference and expectations. That's why everyone freaked out about it.
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Just wait until climate change really takes ahold!
Will make the Covid death toll seem like peanuts.
Some stats (per year in the U.S... note just the U.S.):
Heart disease: 659,041
Cancer: 599,601
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 173,040
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 156,979
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 150,005
Alzheimer’s disease: 121,499
Diabetes: 87,647
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 51,565
Influenza and Pneumonia: 49,783
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,511
Although nobody talks about the mosquito. Kills via its vectors 1,000,000 folks per year. And humans? Murders are almost 500k globally. Snakes kill 50,000.
IDK... but locking down and crippling the economy and lives to save say an extra 20k over the long run seems like its not worth the risk...
Especially if they choose to not get vaccinated. They run the risk regardless and a lot of those folks are over 70/80 anyways.
Anybody heard of TB? Kills 1.5 million a year.
If anything, Malaria is more of a risk in the long run.
AND AND... antibiotic resitant bacteria. Forget viruses, bacteria are the ultimate source of plague. Can really be deadly. We just have antibiotics so we forget about them!!!
Back in the olden days, a cut outside in the forest could spell death. I'm just saying. A simple wound could mean the end.