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> How will a virus that hurts <1% of people devastate economies, lockdowns or not? Imagine 1% (or 0.5% or 0.2% or whatever) of planes crashed. How well do you
by smnrchrds 6y ago
> How will a virus that hurts <1% of people devastate economies, lockdowns or not?
Imagine 1% (or 0.5% or 0.2% or whatever) of planes crashed. How well do you think the airlines would fare? How many people would still fly?
1% is an insanely high number of deaths.
- pjc50 6y ago0.1% of London bus drivers died: https://www.ioshmagazine.com/2020/08/11/london-bus-driver-covid-19-mortality-report-published https://www.ioshmagazine.com/2020/08/11/london-bus-driver-co... If they were dying in bus crashes, people would notice.
- anoncake 6y ago1% is not insanely high, it's roughly how many people die each year.
- joshuamorton 6y agoThen indeed, doubling the number of people who die would be significant.
- anoncake 6y agoOf course, but so is the damage caused by lockdowns.
- joshuamorton 6y agoAre you suggesting that lockdowns are doubling the number of animal deaths?
- CRConrad 6y agoanoncake writes: > 1% is not insanely high, it's roughly how many people die each year. So another percent on top of that is a doubling. As many people again dying from Covid-19 as die from all other causes. How is that NOT “insanely” high?