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Except for the age difference of the victims, those numbers actually make covid seem pretty bad. Covid has hardly been around for a year and is killing 7x as ma
by jjeaff 6y ago
Except for the age difference of the victims, those numbers actually make covid seem pretty bad. Covid has hardly been around for a year and is killing 7x as many people a year.
- vtail 6y agoMalaria affects far smaller population size.
- mchusma 6y agoAlso, while covid is not done yet, it's probably going to kill in total much less than 100M. COVID is bad, but in some ways we got lucky because there could have been way worse pandemics that acted more like smallpox or measles.
- jjk166 6y agoThose are the numbers for a single country. Malaria kills 1-3 million people per year globally.
- lswainemoore 6y agoUnless I'm misreading the link, those numbers (~600k/yr) are global. Still, staggeringly high, and concentrated in a region.
- warrenm 6y agoYes, the number is "global" - but the actual part of the "globe" that's affected is remarkably small ..making its rate far worse than it otherwise appears
- argvargc 6y ago> Except for the age difference of the victims Right. Let's all just ignore that the majority of those killed by covid are around the average age of life expectancy, so that we can try and make the unprecedentedly panicked, massively-damaging and downright stupid multi-trillion dollar response to covid appear slightly less irrational and racist. Starving kills 9 million/year. They're mainly children of colour too, but don't worry - systemic racism is just fine with pretty much everyone when it comes to allocating funds and resources to save those most at risk from preventable death.
- oblio 6y agoWhy is it racism, though?
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- wizzwizz4 6y agoIt isn't inherently racism (though there is racism involved). It's more a NIMBY type effect, but in reverse, I think – “it doesn't affect me, so I don't have to think about it” type thing.
- oblio 6y ago> a NIMBY type effect, but in reverse We call that selfishness :-) And we can't force people to help others, no matter how much we dislike the attitude.
- iso1631 6y ago> And we can't force people to help others, no matter how much we dislike the attitude. We can, and we do all the time, via taxation. You're forced to pay taxes to fund the people who empty the bins in the park you never even go to. It's a good thing.
- oblio 6y agoYeah, but taxation stops at the national border level.
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- estaseuropano 6y agoIgnoring smaller numbers in eastern Europe and central Asia, the people dying from poverty and preventable diseases tend to be African, south east Asian or south American.
- himinlomax 6y agoCovid is an acute infection, you get infected, you beat the infection or you die. Some may have life-long side effects from the disease, but they are free from the disease itself. Malaria, like HIV or Herpes, is a chronic disease. Once you're infected, you're affected by it until you die. The debilitating effects of malaria also have disastrous economic impacts.