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30 year old guy died where I live, recently. He leaves behind a young family. Do not pretend this can't hurt young people, badly.

• squarefoot 7y ago
  There's also a 12 years old girl dead in Belgium. https://nypost.com/2020/03/31/12-year-old-belgian-girl-becomes-europes-youngest-known-coronavirus-death/ https://nypost.com/2020/03/31/12-year-old-belgian-girl-becom... The article also contains accounts of two more youngsters dead, at 14 and 16. This thing can kill anyone.
  • elephantscan 7y ago
    Sure, it can. But its very unlikely. 0.2% chance of death for 30 year olds is roughly the same as a 30 year old's chance of dying in any given year.
    • kian 7y ago
      Which means doubling your chance of death in a year. Can you think of any activity you would willingly engage in that doubles your risk of death in a year? Most people won't even stand outside unprotected in a lightning storm - and this is much worse.
      • perl4ever 7y ago
        A quick Google suggests that if your risk is representative, a 0.2% additional risk of death equates to going skydiving around 3-400 times in a year. Or, based on overall fatalities from motorcycles per mile, it would equate to about 8,000 miles per year. Or, based on light aircraft fatalities per hour, it would be around 200 flight hours in a year. Of course, you could argue that the casualties from both activities are skewed upwards by people who do stupid things early and don't live long enough to engage in the activity a lot. Anyway, I'm not particularly agreeing or disagreeing. The risks above are considered reasonable by a lot of people and unreasonable by others.
• threatofrain 7y ago
  And people will die from suicide due to economic destitution. The ones pretending are those that think public policy should be discussed in morally squeaky clean terms. Crisis policy is a dirty conversation about who sinks and who swims. We are talking about trading people for people, and we’re saying in some trades the numbers work out better.