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Re:Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis [pdf] by flubert on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:24AM (#24859003)
I wonder how much time per day the average person contemplates the 480,000 annual U.S. deaths caused by tobacco?

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...

Re:Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis [pdf] by trey-jones on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:39AM (#24859180)
It's not really a fair comparison. Tobacco/Smoking seems avoidable: "If I don't smoke, I won't be one of those statistics."

With disease, caused by a practically invisible virus, we wash our hands, we keep our distance, we wear a mask, but it still seems likely that we will eventually get it anyway. It seems unavoidable, especially because we can't tell who is spreading it. I think the equivalent of being a non-smoker is just hiding out in your house for 18 months and not seeing another human at all, close family and friends included.