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for an individual, it's "good" if you accept to have one chance over 50 to die of it. for a population, it's a lot of deaths. all depends if you think "you fi

by wiz21c 5y ago

for an individual, it's "good" if you accept to have one chance over 50 to die of it. for a population, it's a lot of deaths. all depends if you think "you first" or "the other first"

soonnow 5y ago
Well I just did a test with a tool for lung cancer risk. Assuming I smoked half a pack a day for 25 years and stopped at 40, my risk would be 1 in 1000. Yet noone would say it's "good" to smoke. Even if the risk is 10% of the risk of dying of COVID.
majewsky 5y ago
A 2% death chance may look small on its face, but Covid is not the only thing you can die from. If you accept a 2% death chance ten separate times, your death chance overall is 18.3%. I bet those are numbers which a lot of people won't be comfortable with anymore.