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Avoiding infection is not just for your own good; more importantly, keeping the speed of the virus spreading down is for protecting everybody. Twas ever thus.
by krona 6y ago
Avoiding infection is not just for your own good; more importantly, keeping the speed of the virus spreading down is for protecting everybody.
Twas ever thus. Norovirus kills 200,000 people every year, and yet we don't close entire cities every time there's an outbreak.
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- ben_w 6y agoIIRC, noro is too infectious for a lockdown to work, even though you can only catch it from the… emissions… when the patient goes off at both ends.
- rsynnott 6y ago> Norovirus kills 200,000 people every year That's true, but it kills very few people in the developed world. Deaths from norovirus are mostly a result of inadequate treatment, and/or lack of detection. And, frankly, if covid was only going to kill 200k people, we probably wouldn't be closing anything much. It has already killed almost 350k people, and that's _with_ most countries imposing variously draconian measures.
- jpmoral 6y agoI don't understand this thinking. Do you think it's fine if new endemic diseases are added that will kill multiple of 10k or 100k people a year, every year?
- NeutronStar 6y agoBut it's fine for the flu to kill 600k people a year?
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoNobody freaks out over automobile deaths.
- Intermernet 6y agoThe entire car safety industry is a result of people freaking out over automobile deaths. Car safety is reactive. People die, friends /relatives /society freak out (justifiably) and the car industry responds. These responses are also debated and argued by the population (seatbelts, safety ratings, speed limits etc.)