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Originally Posted by DaFace
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.
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This sounds like complete nonsense. Every single decision made by people and especially government is based on risk vs reward.
Again we are harming out kids and young adults to avoid a disease that kills people on average the same age as the average life expectancy. Its stupid.