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"If you looked at that table and went like "Oh, just 0.2% for me, great! No need to worry!" you are a terrible person." Or, with a bit more empathy, they just
by jaas 7y ago
"If you looked at that table and went like "Oh, just 0.2% for me, great! No need to worry!" you are a terrible person."
Or, with a bit more empathy, they just haven't put it in the right context yet.
Any death from this is unfortunate, but many things can kill you and many people have accepted a low mortality percentage for lots of things. They may just initially perceive that smallish number as another one among many (e.g. the normal flu, biking). It may be a big number compared to other stuff, but it looks small and I can see how people might be dismissive. That doesn't make them terrible people, they just don't (yet?) have the perspective that you do.