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Re:Population-level herd immunity against Covid-19 will not ... by alistairSH on Friday May 08, 2020 @11:31AM (#23115880)
I feel like you're trying to make some sort of reductio ad absurdum argument.

Yes, the flu kills people. So do lightning strikes. Airplane crashes. And anvils falling out of windows. None at anywhere near the scale of C19.

There's a balance. I don't claim to know exactly where that is, but I'm confident that "meh, granny's gonna die anyways, and I want to buy stuff and get a pedicure" is a rather ghastly approach to the current situation.

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Re:Population-level herd immunity against Covid-19 will not ... by steveeq1 on Friday May 08, 2020 @11:47AM (#23116083)
What you gave is a strawman argument. Read what was originally written:

> What mindset? That preserving life is more palatable than making money? I'm ok with that. I'd rather be unemployed than dead.

You can "preserve life" by quarantining every flu epidemic. But this is an absurd argument. At some point the 'preserving life' argument breaks down.

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