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Originally Posted by mac459
You have missed that argument? How?
Every single time death numbers were brought up from some disease, people would bring up it wasn’t contagious like COVID. Those same people would then compare death totals of COVID to wars, even though war deaths aren’t contagious. Just like the explosion in Lebanon, just like 9/11 weren’t contagious, so I was curious if all those people would jump in to say that.
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If I'm understanding the argument correctly, that seems to be more about being "preventable" than about being "contagious" per se. It's not a black and white thing, but I'd put them on a spectrum something like this.
-Not a lot we can do about heart disease, though research continues.
-Relatively little we could have done about 9/11 given the information known at the time.
-Some things we could have done about COVID.
-A lot they could have done in Beirut.
Regardless, my only point is that looking at situations based on the percentage of people who are killed is silly. There is almost no situation, illness or otherwise, that would kill a significant percentage of the population, so using that as a means of examining a situation's severity is almost entirely meaningless.