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Yes, but mosquitos kill that many every single year. Look at the reaction to COVID-19 compared to the amount of effort going into eliminating mosquito-borne di
by tempestn 6y ago
Yes, but mosquitos kill that many every single year. Look at the reaction to COVID-19 compared to the amount of effort going into eliminating mosquito-borne disease. There's certainly some, but it's far from the mobilization we see when a calamity on this scale hits rich countries.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoMaybe that's cause-and-effect turned around? We stifled our economy and mobilize a million researchers, because we can afford to and have the will. It'll cost us in the end. What do folks in malaria country do? Scavenge their childrens' mosquito nets to catch fish etc. Reject modern medicine and go to the local quack. Foul their water supplies and poach their endangered species. I know, we can have all the morals we can afford. But some large-scale coordinated actions require a populace that is educated and willing.
- djsumdog 6y agoIt's because SARS-CoV-2 is new, and new things scare us more than things we know. This entire thing has been an exercises in how people fail to properly evaluate risk ... on a global scale .. leading to economic devastation. Wendover did a great video on risk recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtX-Ibi21tU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtX-Ibi21tU
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoExcept this risk is real. The more we learn of it, the more significant it becomes. Fortunately with study we will beat it. But to laugh at the risk of Covid is foolhardy.
- andarleen 6y agoThe main difference is covid hit home. People dont really care when it happens in other countries - how many blinked as people were dying in china? Almost no one cared.
- stellalo 6y agoThen it is reasonable to assume that, without such effort, covid-19 numbers would be far worse than mosquitoes
- tempestn 6y agoOf course! I'm not arguing we shouldn't be making every possible effort against covid-19.