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Assuming you're going to live for 50 more years from today, wasting a year of your life is only worth it if it prevents a 2% chance of death.
by School-Cotton 5y ago
Assuming you're going to live for 50 more years from today, wasting a year of your life is only worth it if it prevents a 2% chance of death.
- TechBro8615 5y agoThis assumes every year of life has equal worth.
- School-Cotton 5y agoIndeed. If you assume that earlier years are worth more, the point is even stronger.
- hh3k0 5y agoYour calculation needs to take loss in quality of life due to a) contracting long COVID, b) suffering a COVID-induced stroke, or c) living with brain damage post-COVID into account. Furthermore, you should consider that mutations will run rampant if laissez-faire policies are implemented; a variant with increased lethality might come along and cut your life short.
- andybak 5y agoI haven't wasted a year of my life. I've slightly modified my behaviour. I've done some things less and other things more.
- proactivesvcs 5y agoMultiplied by however many hundreds of people one encounters over a year, perhaps your numbers need work.