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when the towers fell, nobody got hurt? the threats are legitimate, but its fair to be critical of the response.

• aeternum 5y ago
  the threats are legitimate and every death counts but it also makes sense to prioritize and focus our limited attention to areas where it has the most impact. Terrorism kills something like 28k/year whereas Covid has killed 5 million.
  • umvi 5y ago
    The majority of the ~5 million that covid killed would have been dead of old age, heart disease, etc. in 5-10 years anyway. Covid just shaved off a few years of life expectancy; the same people would have shown up in CDC death counts as heart disease or natural causes statistics a few years later. With the 28k killed by terrorism, not so much. You have a lot more young and healthy dying with decades of life expectancy remaining. Same with comparing covid deaths to WWI deaths. On the one hand you have thousands of healthy 18-year-olds dying, and on the other you have thousands of elderly, obese, and sickly people dying. Not quite a fair comparison.
    • aeternum 5y ago
      We'll see, it's a falsifiable prediction, which is good, but we won't really know until we get the excess death numbers for the next 5-10 years. Even in the 25-44yr age range, we see a pretty significant increase in deaths: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6942e2.htm#F2_down https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6942e2.htm#F2_down