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COVID is scary at personal scales and it did deeply traumatize us all, but at statistic scale it had 3.5% or so of mortality rate among unvaccinated humans. Tha
by numpad0 2y ago
COVID is scary at personal scales and it did deeply traumatize us all, but at statistic scale it had 3.5% or so of mortality rate among unvaccinated humans. That isn't going to put us onto a list of endangered species.
- XorNot 2y ago3.5% means it killed 1 in every 29 or so people it infected.
- numpad0 2y agoAnd that's only 1 percent point more than the global infant(<1yo) mortality rate right now. Or 4x less percentages than Soviet losses in WWII(13.7% wtf), or 5x less than French losses in Napoleonic wars(5m out of 30m or so). It's not worth assuming antivax style denialist attitudes against a COVID-class crisis, but it's also no factor for survival of humans the species. Only damaging to like, medium term economies and profits. We'd grow back just fine so long we'd wear masks, eat well, and get vaccinated as needed in timely manners.
- XorNot 2y agoI don't understand people who do the "well we'll survive as a species!" argument. Like, sure, okay. But if I told you to do something which killed 1 out of every 30 people who attempted it, you wouldn't do it.