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US isn't the only country in the world
by haakonhr 6y ago
US isn't the only country in the world
- concordDance 6y agoGiven the grandparent was in a thread on a US company in California I assumed a US context.
- goatlover 6y agoI compared it to 1918 Influenza's global death count/estimate. 50 million people worldwide is a lot, even with the 7.8 billion we have. And 2 million US deaths would be a lot as well. I think it's worth some inconvenience and economic slowdown to prevent millions of deaths.
- concordDance 6y agoDepends how big the "inconvenience" and slowdown is (both economic losses and isolation and routine disruption cause death and quality of life decreases). Poverty is on average much much worse than covid19 for life expectancy (though there are a lot of caveats here). This isn't a taboo trade-off, both sides of the trade-off contain things we really don't want to sacrifice.