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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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The argument was (and I guess is) that we lose more people from car accidents (e.g.) than we had from COVID-19, but we don't tell people to stop driving, in comparison to the mitigation efforts.
That's separate from saying, "Holy crap. This thing has killed more Americans in two months than Vietnam did in 10 years."