How remdesivir works, and why it's not the ultimate coronavirus killer

Re:How remdesivir works, and why it's not the ultimate coron... by perl4ever on Monday June 29, 2020 @10:24PM (#23685858)

>The logical conclusion is that you should pay yourself to get rid of the motorcycle

If I had a motorcycle, giving it up would be the payment. Hence, I could pass the value on to someone else who assisted me, in theory.

If I "paid myself" I guess that would mean I could choose something else risky to do with my "balance" of micromorts.

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Re:How remdesivir works, and why it's not the ultimate coron... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @12:26AM (#23686555)

That, and your previous post as far as I understand, only makes sense if someone that owns a motorcycle is stuck using it, unable to put it away or destroy it.

A world where motorcycles act like curses is an interesting concept for a short story, but not very relevant to a discussion of micromorts.

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Re:How remdesivir works, and why it's not the ultimate coron... by perl4ever on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @10:21PM (#23697050)

Well, if the cost of riding a motorcycle is millions of dollars, then it must be that they act like curses in the real world; otherwise you can't explain people doing it.

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Re:How remdesivir works, and why it's not the ultimate coron... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @03:20AM (#23698715)

* People don't act rationally about small risks, and greatly exaggerate or diminish them based on fear.

* Not everyone is going to put the same value on their own life.

* Some people will find major restrictions worse than a very small risk of death.

There's three perfectly good explanations.

Also if you use $5 per micromort, a pretty standard number, you get a motorcycle-riding cost of about eleven dollars a day. Plenty of people would pay that on purpose.

Also using perpetuity math is really wrong unless you plan to live hundreds of years.

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