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People dying is normal. An event like 9/11 isn't.
by postalrat 6y ago
People dying is normal. An event like 9/11 isn't.
- pklausler 6y agoPeople dying prematurely from a preventable pandemic is not normal and should never be considered so.
- postalrat 6y agoYou've been oversold if you think the pandemic was completely preventable. Many deaths are preventable but eventually you die. 500k "preventable" deaths every single year in the USA from smoking. Many others could be "prevented" by eating healthier food or getting more exercise.
- klyrs 6y ago"Excess deaths" measures the deviation from "normal." When that gets up into thousands per day, overtaking causes like cancer and heart disease, it's not "normal."
- postalrat 6y agoAbout 655k die every year from heart disease. Covid hasn't reached half that number in the same time. Covid has been terrible but you shouldn't cherry pick stats to tell a story that isn't true.
- ndiscussion 6y agoMasks sell easier to people with limited self control than salads.
- klyrs 6y agoCherrypicking? I was referring to the daily death rate. If it had been 2k/day all year, which has been fairly common in recent weeks, then about 700k would have died. But that would be ridiculous, because the virus took a long time to reach the saturation level we're at today. The stat you picked is quite incomparable.
- AlexandrB 6y agoPeople dying of "old age" is normal. Just wait until the UK strain (which seems to affect the young more[1]) makes its presence known this side of the Atlantic. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-31/faster-spreading-covid-strain-affects-young-the-most-study-says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-31/faster-sp...