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99.4-99.6% survival rate (1), good sir. Anyone at high risk is free to take extra precautions. No one is “inflicting violence” by living normally. (1) https:/

• simtel20 5y ago
  So globally if the entire population is infected, the death of 31.6 to 47.4 million people doesn't strike you as violence, e.g. a great destructive force or energy by what you say. That is pitifully selfish if you have actually considered the loss of life involved and feel that way. It is ignorant and unworthy of other people's consideration if you have not. You do not have the power or right to accept the risk of other people's mass death to enforce your own notion of "normal". If you cannot understand that, you need someone capable of empathy to be your moral compass in place of your broken inability to do so.
• noelwelsh 5y ago
  An IFR of 0.5% is still millions of people. Case fatality rate is comparable to the Spanish flu: * https://pmj.bmj.com/content/97/1147/273 https://pmj.bmj.com/content/97/1147/273 * https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case-fatality-rates/ https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case-fatality-... As I understand it, reducing both inhalation and exhalation of the virus (i.e. everyone wearing masks) is more much more effective than reducing either one alone. The classic formulation of rights under liberalism is "your rights end where mine begins". This makes it fairly clear that individuals don't have the right to transmit diseases to others.