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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by smnrchrds on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:51AM (#25113876)
> How will a virus that hurts <1% of people devastate economies, lockdowns or not?

Imagine 1% (or 0.5% or 0.2% or whatever) of planes crashed. How well do you think the airlines would fare? How many people would still fly?

1% is an insanely high number of deaths.

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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by pjc50 on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:13PM (#25114176)
0.1% of London bus drivers died: https://www.ioshmagazine.com/2020/08/11/london-bus-driver-co...

If they were dying in bus crashes, people would notice.

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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by anoncake on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:21PM (#25114294)
1% is not insanely high, it's roughly how many people die each year.
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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by CRConrad on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:41PM (#25114578)
anoncake writes:

> 1% is not insanely high, it's roughly how many people die each year.

So another percent on top of that is a doubling. As many people again dying from Covid-19 as die from all other causes. How is that NOT “insanely” high?

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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by Izkata on Monday November 16, 2020 @01:20PM (#25115097)
Given the average age of covid deaths, there's probably something like 80-90% overlap there. Nowhere near double.
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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by anoncake on Monday November 16, 2020 @03:19PM (#25116512)
How much does people dying disrupt our lives every year? Not at all, basically. Two times "not at all" still isn't much.
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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by joshuamorton on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:35PM (#25114501)
Then indeed, doubling the number of people who die would be significant.
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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by anoncake on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:40PM (#25114571)
Of course, but so is the damage caused by lockdowns.
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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by joshuamorton on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:53PM (#25114751)
Are you suggesting that lockdowns are doubling the number of animal deaths?
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