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Consider that causing 1% of the group's population to die might not weaken the group and in fact might make the group stronger.
by tshaddox 5y ago
Consider that causing 1% of the group's population to die might not weaken the group and in fact might make the group stronger.
- XorNot 5y agoDisease doesn't kill "weaker" members of a group, it kills susceptible ones. The Spanish Flu notably had a much higher mortality amongst younger, healthier people.
- tshaddox 5y agoI didn't mean some sort of darwinian thing where the average strength goes up. I mean that the strength of the group as a whole could very well increase.
- jandrese 5y agoCOVID however is most fatal to the eldery. Letting it simply rage out of control could push back the social security crisis a few years. I don't think anything as Machiavellian as this is going on. I think it was all just a culmination of decades anti-expert propaganda and knee-jerk obstructionism coming to a head in a terribly fatal way.
- SamoyedFurFluff 5y agoThe elderly though often serve an important part in society. In particular, they can care for grandchildren.
- willob33 5y agoHe’s effectively describing Trump’s leaked plan to let covid ravage blue urban areas before the election, but here framing it as a liberal plot as a narrative device Maybe he’s a Republican astroturfer Someone just learned the root language of real human economics taught to us as abstractions through story and pie chart.
- _ykl9 5y agoAlternatively, maybe he's a Democratic astroturfer using reverse reverse psychology to convince holdouts to go get vaccinated.
- kkjjkgjjgg 5y agoPeople laughing about people believing in conspiracy theories spreading conspiracy theories. No useful comments come to mind, can only watch in awe.
- willob33 5y agoAgreed; I see no use in this comment. First world culture is a literal train wreck of needless industrial behavior imperiling lives we won’t be around to help. Let us wax poetic about the selfishness of our jokes.
- raxxorrax 5y agoConsider it a form of entertainment if you can stomach the more morbid aspects of it.
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- Veelox 5y ago>Trump's leaked plan Can I get a source?
- willob33 5y agoKushner’s covid team but he worked for Trump. Our biology won’t let us do anything but game ways to beat each other https://www.businessinsider.com/kushner-covid-19-plan-maybe-axed-for-political-reasons-report-2020-7 https://www.businessinsider.com/kushner-covid-19-plan-maybe-...