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>you can cite them numbers of average years of life lost per covid death That's practically inviting them to cite back the average life lost from the 1918 flu.
by throwaway0a5e 6y ago
>you can cite them numbers of average years of life lost per covid death
That's practically inviting them to cite back the average life lost from the 1918 flu. If you're trying to counter someone who's downplaying Covid that is probably not something you should invite them to do.
- AnotherGoodName 6y agoThat's fine though. If they point out that COVID is merely in the same order of magnitude but not objectively worse than Spanish Flu then the point that COVID should not be downplayed has been won.
- Revery42 6y agoI believe there are a significant amount of these people that won't actually argue that just because the Spanish flu was worse in this way that the Covid pandemic isn't a problem.
- whimsicalism 6y agoAs the other poster said, if that's the argument you're resorting to, I would say you've already lost. I've found it is helpful to count by equivalent number of deaths to something that the person has actually experienced, as it is way too easy to brush away deaths that occurred in 1918. For instance, it's as if you took the number of years of life lost in 9/11 and multiplied it by 120.
- xkjkls 6y agoIs the point here to argue that the Spanish Flu was worse? Yes, it was. But I think someone crying, "This is the worst pandemic in 100 years", sounds like they are pretty on the money.