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You can't deduce the gravity of a threat from the state's response to it. Just consider the ~0 killed by terrorism each year in western countries vs the securit
by anoncake 6y ago
You can't deduce the gravity of a threat from the state's response to it. Just consider the ~0 killed by terrorism each year in western countries vs the security theater at airports.
- Touche 6y agoTerrorism isn't an infectious disease.
- anoncake 6y agoYour point?
- Touche 6y agoThat your analogy doesn't hold. We do know that infectious diseases with a median R0 of 5.7 will spread exponentially, as was the case with covid-19 in the January-March timeframe. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0282_article https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0282_article
- anoncake 6y agoAnd that means that you can deduce something about the danger of something from the reaction to it because...?