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That'd make more sense if heart disease had a significant chance of killing people breathing the same air as you.

by d4mi3n 6y ago

matz1 6y ago
Good thing that the chance of being killed by covid infected people breathing the same air as me is very very low.
- sojournerc 6y ago
  How can someone downvote this? 99.9% is low odds...
  - gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
    Anxiety disorder pervading society. Habituation to an unimaginably high safety standard in modern society.
  - ben_w 6y ago
    Sometimes COVID gets compared to flu. Thing is, most people underestimate what flu is like (I suspect this is because of the tendency to say “XYZ got the flu” when they had a common cold). This is what COVID is like — First roll two D4: If you rolled a 1 in the first, you now have a liver injury; If you rolled a 1 on the other, you lose your sense of smell. Now roll a D20: • 1-4: asymptotic but still infectious • 5-16: somewhere up to “mild pneumonia” • 17-19: severe symptoms (dyspnea, hypoxia, etc) • 20: critical symptoms (respiratory failure, shock, or multiorgan dysfunction) And that’s with treatment. All that “flattening the curve” talk early last year was about making sure people could still get treatment — if you exceed the capacity of the healthcare system, you don’t get to save all the people whose conditions would have been well within your capacity in a non-overloaded system.
- d4mi3n 6y ago
  About 2%, currently. Meaning if you walk into a room, spend time in it with 100 other people, 2 of them are likely to die. The odds are low for an individual. Sadly, 2% is a bigger deal when you get on a bus, walk through an airport, use an elevator, go to a public restroom, or walk down a crowded sidewalk. This isn’t an issue of your health or my health. It’s an issue if everyone’s health.
gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
Obviously their chance of dying from breathing the same air as me isn't completely divorced from whether they're able to put down a donut.

That'd make more sense if heart disease had a significant chance of killing people breathing the same air as you.

by d4mi3n 6y ago

That'd make more sense if heart disease had a significant chance of killing people breathing the same air as you.

matz1 6y ago

Good thing that the chance of being killed by covid infected people breathing the same air as me is very very low.

sojournerc 6y ago
How can someone downvote this? 99.9% is low odds...
- gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
  Anxiety disorder pervading society. Habituation to an unimaginably high safety standard in modern society.
- ben_w 6y ago
  Sometimes COVID gets compared to flu. Thing is, most people underestimate what flu is like (I suspect this is because of the tendency to say “XYZ got the flu” when they had a common cold). This is what COVID is like — First roll two D4: If you rolled a 1 in the first, you now have a liver injury; If you rolled a 1 on the other, you lose your sense of smell. Now roll a D20: • 1-4: asymptotic but still infectious • 5-16: somewhere up to “mild pneumonia” • 17-19: severe symptoms (dyspnea, hypoxia, etc) • 20: critical symptoms (respiratory failure, shock, or multiorgan dysfunction) And that’s with treatment. All that “flattening the curve” talk early last year was about making sure people could still get treatment — if you exceed the capacity of the healthcare system, you don’t get to save all the people whose conditions would have been well within your capacity in a non-overloaded system.
d4mi3n 6y ago
About 2%, currently. Meaning if you walk into a room, spend time in it with 100 other people, 2 of them are likely to die. The odds are low for an individual. Sadly, 2% is a bigger deal when you get on a bus, walk through an airport, use an elevator, go to a public restroom, or walk down a crowded sidewalk. This isn’t an issue of your health or my health. It’s an issue if everyone’s health.

gnusty_gnurc 6y ago

Obviously their chance of dying from breathing the same air as me isn't completely divorced from whether they're able to put down a donut.