Re:Coronavirus: Germany infection rate rises as lockdown eases
by tinus_hn on Sunday May 10, 2020 @07:26PM
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Healthy 30 year olds die from traffic accidents. Do you yearn for life in which all risk is avoided at all costs, and do you think it’s proper to force that on everyone else?
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Re:Coronavirus: Germany infection rate rises as lockdown eases
by wbl on Sunday May 10, 2020 @09:00PM
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If 0.5٪ of the population was dying in a car accident every year you can be sure there would be a massive safety effort.
Re:Coronavirus: Germany infection rate rises as lockdown eases
by tinus_hn on Monday May 11, 2020 @02:53AM
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0.5% of 30 year olds is not going to the hospital for Covid-19 by a long shot.
In the Netherlands there are approximately 1.100.000 people between 30 and 34 years old (inclusive). Of those people 150 entered the hospital. That’s 0.01%. Most of these people are not dying (in fact only 3 of them did, which is 0.0003%) and while there isn’t a number of people with the chronic problems it definitely isn’t all of them.
By the way slightly more than 0.1% of the population dies every year due to smoking. I have yet to see the massive safety efforts.