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800000 people have died over the past two years in the US alone. That’s an order of magnitude difference. That’s why the response was an order of magnitude mo
by wokwokwok 5y ago
800000 people have died over the past two years in the US alone.
That’s an order of magnitude difference.
That’s why the response was an order of magnitude more substantial.
I’m baffled you think this is somehow surprising.
- refurb 5y agoI’m baffled my point went over your head. We have tens of thousands of thousands of deaths every year. In the past decade 300,000 died of the flu and nobody notices.
- it_does_follow 5y agoPeople did notice. Pre-pandemic this was the major reason most people got flu vaccines: it's nice not to get the flu, but even nicer not to kill grandma when you visit the nursing home. Bad flu seasons were heavily reported, and people were aware that, while mild to most, the flu can be very deadly to at risk populations. In pre-pandemic years if there was a flu as contagious as omicron people would be in a panic. I'm sorry you don't like reality, I've never been a huge fan myself, but what's happening is happening.
- immibis 5y agoAnd in the next decade, based on current death rates, 4,000,000 Americans will die of COVID-19. Are you saying there's no difference between 3x10^5 and 4x10^6? Well, the difference is not that large, but apparently it does cross our arbitrary threshold for "this is actually quite bad and we should probably stop it from happening"
- refurb 5y agoHuh? You’re extrapolating two year of a pandemic, most before a vaccine out 10 years? That’s ridiculous right?