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