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>COVID-19 is a perfect example of the folly in believing "technology will always save us". From a purely collectivist point of view, unchecked Covid only kills
by logicchains 5y ago
>COVID-19 is a perfect example of the folly in believing "technology will always save us".
From a purely collectivist point of view, unchecked Covid only kills around 1% of the population and the vast majority are retired people, so it's not something society needed saving from as it has pretty much zero effect on humanity's long-term economic/technological progress.
- vecinu 5y agoI think the serious issue is more around long COVID and the associated symptoms with something that could perhaps become a chronic issue down the line.
- colordrops 5y agoWhat chronic issues?
- mullingitover 5y agoHeart damage[1]. Brain damage[2]. [1] https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/42/19/1866/6140994 https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/42/19/1866/614099... [2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v...
- roenxi 5y agoYeah, COVID is pretty bad. If possible, nobody wants to catch it. But COVID to human civilisation is like a badly stubbed toe to a human. Painful. To be avoided. Maybe quite a bit of damage. Not really a threat if responded to in a rational way & with some whimpering.