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Or the million+ deaths in the US from Covid, which I have seen brushed off on HN as not a big deal. It's remarkably how quickly people incorporate tragedy as n
by IKantRead 3y ago
Or the million+ deaths in the US from Covid, which I have seen brushed off on HN as not a big deal.
It's remarkably how quickly people incorporate tragedy as normal when it doesn't fit their worldview. If you travel to 2000 and told people "in 2020 a pandemic will kill over 1 million Americans, and a good portion will brush it off as a 'nothing burger'" people would think you were being ridiculous and would dismiss it as unbelievable fiction.
- alangibson 3y ago> It's remarkably how quickly people incorporate tragedy as normal It's one of our greatest strengths and weaknesses. It let's us keep living, but also allows us to normalize that which shouldn't be accepted. If the opening of MFTF happened, within 2 weeks people would be posting graphs showing how per capita all cause deaths are actually going down over time.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoThere are a million HIV deaths annually. Once something becomes endemic we accept it as a new mode of existence. A million people die a week, worldwide, from all causes.
- IKantRead 3y agoIn the US, which is the region I'm citing for covid deaths, HIV causes ~20,000 deaths a year [0]. Last I checked people are quite considered with global HIV death, especially since they can obviously be reduced dramatically. 0. https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/statistics/ https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/stat...