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what if you die next year (of a different cause) and the quarantine robbed you from your last year, would you make the same trade?
by glofish 6y ago
what if you die next year (of a different cause) and the quarantine robbed you from your last year, would you make the same trade?
- abiogenesis 6y agoStatistically speaking, deaths from random causes will not increase by 1% in the next year (assuming that the death rate of COVID-19 is 1%).
- glofish 6y agothe point I was making is that the value of a year in you life and what the quarantine takes from you depends on other factors.
- dpau 6y agowhat of those who don't quarantine, get covid, and pass the virus on to their elderly relatives? would you make the same trade?
- sojournerc 6y agoThe what if's get awfully tired. My mother _actually_ passed from cancer in May. I sure wish I could've spent more time with her before that happened despite any risks.
- labster 6y agoIf it kept my loved ones and other random people from dying, sure. Everyone optimizing for their own benefit only is bowing down to the altar of Moloch.
- KarlKode 6y agoIf you look at your argument without the "I bias", there is (or at least I'd argue there is strong empirical evidence for) a tradeoff between "lives saved [from Covid]" and "decrease in the quality of life" which IMHO is the argument of the OC.