half my siblings take similar stances...at a minimum, it's a lack of empathy

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Apr 7, 2020
10:07:36am

BlackBart All-American

and after that it's a lack of understanding science/math

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BlackBart

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If you are a reasonably healthy adult, your chance of COVID death is 0.04%

Busiturtle

4/7/20 9:45am

How are people still downplaying the danger of this thing?

rad dawg

4/7/20 9:47am

Good question

Covid-19

4/7/20 9:48am

It amazes me too. Head in sand

Croweater

4/7/20 9:48am

It's not downplaying it. I mean, a 0.04% chance of dying is good enough for me

dYrtbYkerYder

4/7/20 9:50am

Everyone has different risk tolerance, .04% chance of dying doesn’t even phase

gilmerbuckeye

4/7/20 10:03am

Except it’s not a 99.6% chance you’ll be fine. It’s actually 99.96%.

antiyewt

4/7/20 1:13pm

It's unbelievable.

eddog

4/7/20 10:05am

half my siblings take similar stances...at a minimum, it's a lack of empathy

BlackBart

4/7/20 10:07am

to be clear, they've self-ascribed to the bucket that won't care until

BlackBart

4/7/20 10:09am

Is it lacking empathy to spend trillions to prolong a relatively small number of

dYrtbYkerYder

4/7/20 10:15am

What you said is true

gurt

4/7/20 11:33am

All great philosophical questions answered when there is ample time and

StalwartBraveTrue

4/7/20 8:18pm

So where is your empathy for the 20 million americans that lost jobs this month?

gilmerbuckeye

4/7/20 10:33am

Vast majority of these have been furloughed and can resume the same employment

hardcorecoug

4/7/20 9:35pm

Source on that claim? The ones at my company were simply laid off.

dYrtbYkerYder

4/7/20 10:16pm

Downplaying for segments of the population

CougarCanuck76

4/7/20 11:29am

Only 10 of us.

kiyoshige

4/7/20 11:58am

I'm surprised you feel that way. I had no idea what your position was on this before now.

Pimpin4Paradise

4/7/20 9:47am

Did you read that on Zerohedge?

SandYFan

4/7/20 9:47am

As a reasonably healthy adult what are my chances of dying from an infectious

Tare

4/7/20 9:49am

If the theory is that everyone will get it eventually, my future is not bright.

Hinta

4/7/20 9:50am

You may want to isolate yourself significantly until you’re vaccinated.

antiyewt

4/7/20 1:20pm

That is the problem. What is reasonably healthy?

bluecheese

4/7/20 9:51am

What if you're an unreasonable healthy adult? Asking for a friend.

DapperDan

4/7/20 9:54am

That death rate equates to 130,000 dead Americans, or double

Busiturtle

4/7/20 9:57am

Yet albeit with different precautions and approach to flu prevention.

coug almighty

4/7/20 10:00am

So.. just let it run rampant through the world population

Big Daddy D

4/7/20 9:59am

He has been shown this argument many times and ignores it.

SandYFan

4/7/20 10:05am

I mean, if it's about saving lives, how about we get vaccines, mosquito nets,

dYrtbYkerYder

4/7/20 10:08am

We're working on that.

SandYFan

4/7/20 10:11am

Not on a large scale. Most would rather donate $ to their local animal shelter.

dYrtbYkerYder

4/7/20 10:17am

Don’t get me started on that nonsense

Big Daddy D

4/7/20 10:19am

Bill Gates is doing it on a large scale.

SandYFan

4/7/20 10:23am

He's done some amazing things for sure.

dYrtbYkerYder

4/7/20 10:31am

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dYrtbYkerYder

4/7/20 10:32am

but what would that number be if no lockdowns were in place?

flyzag

4/7/20 10:33am

I guess we will see when this is all over because of Sweden.

gilmerbuckeye

4/7/20 10:35am

I know it's not perfect (testing etc) but Sweden currently has a 7.68% mortality

flyzag

4/7/20 10:41am

It wouldn't be the mortality rate that would change, would it, it would be the

gilmerbuckeye

4/7/20 10:45am

the percentage of people infected, right?

gilmerbuckeye

4/7/20 10:45am

Both. The argument could be made that more deaths occur in places where no

flyzag

4/7/20 10:54am

Sweden is taking measures, just not as extreme

Covid-19

4/7/20 11:22am

I never said Sweden did nothing, thank you.

gilmerbuckeye

4/7/20 12:29pm

Not saying you in particular have, just have seen that sentiment recently

Covid-19

4/7/20 1:00pm

Avoiding death is not the reason young people should be social distancing, etc.

Hill4Heisman

4/7/20 11:12am

330,000,000 x .04% = 132,000 deaths

Jonahsdad

4/7/20 11:55am

And current projections predict around 80,000 US deaths.

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