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Also one of the reasons it was important to vaccinate kids. People seem to have a really hard time reasoning about graphs. Typical white Americans also had trou
by fnordpiglet 3y ago
Also one of the reasons it was important to vaccinate kids. People seem to have a really hard time reasoning about graphs. Typical white Americans also had trouble understanding outside their demographic multigenerational households are common. Kids killing their grandparents is a heavy burden in life.
- kornhole 3y agoExcept that the vaccines never stopped infection or spread. Here is a humorous video on it. https://youtu.be/E0Mup2cs6Uw https://youtu.be/E0Mup2cs6Uw
- undersuit 3y agoWhy is the video description just a link to Matt Taibbi's substack?
- moshegramovsky 3y agoBut the vaccines have almost certainly prevented, at minimum, hundreds of thousands more deaths. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/report-covid-19-vaccines-saved-us-115-trillion-3-million-lives https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/report-covid-19-vaccines...
- PKop 3y agoThis is absurd. Your ilk was willing to risk well being and health of youth for some hypochondriac fear because the very old and co-morbid had some risk. There's nothing honorable or good about this. >Typical white Americans This is pathetic
- moshegramovsky 3y agoLast I checked, covid has killed over 1,000,000 Americans, even though pretty strong measures were taken. Your characterization of this as "hypochondriac" fear is almost unconscionable.
- dang 3y agoPlease don't post flamewar comments or perpetuate flamewars on Hacker News. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- rajin444 3y agoThis logic of selectively applying externalities based on an arbitrary threshold of risk tolerance is not a good argument. We might as well blame all the fat people as well. If they were thinner we’d have saved lives.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoThe article you’re replying to is that 70% of household infections started with a child. That’s selective application of externalities, that’s a causal statement. So, you could without a huge stretch of conditional probability say that ~70% of fat people dying in a household were due to their kids infecting them, assuming the paper is right. I am not blaming kids for anything, or fat people. I’m saying the focus on preventing kids from being infected had important knock on implications - which is a restatement of the paper linked itself, with the extension that all mitigants were helpful in saving household lives.
- dang 3y agoPlease don't post flamewar comments or perpetuate flamewars on Hacker News. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html