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When does raising an alarm stop being "alarmist"? 5,000 dead? 10,000?

• MeltySmelty 7y ago
  Sadly, most people would rather ignore things until they have to deal with them. If more people were proactive rather than reactive, the world would be a better place.
• geofft 7y ago
  5,000 people die in New York City every month. Well over 10,000 people die from the normal seasonal flu each year in the US alone. Also in car crashes.
  • sp332 7y ago
    You didn't answer the question.
    • geofft 7y ago
      Then I will repeat myself more bluntly. Any alarm that would trigger on the annual seasonal flu or on merely the standard background death rate is a meaningless alarm and is therefore alarmist, so no, 5,000 to 10,000 deaths does not clear the threshold.
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