Obviously their chance of dying from breathing the same air as me isn't completely divorced from whether they're able to put down a donut.

Good thing that the chance of being killed by covid infected people breathing the same air as me is very very low.

About 2%, currently. Meaning if you walk into a room, spend time in it with 100 other people, 2 of them are likely to die.

The odds are low for an individual. Sadly, 2% is a bigger deal when you get on a bus, walk through an airport, use an elevator, go to a public restroom, or walk down a crowded sidewalk.

This isn’t an issue of your health or my health. It’s an issue if everyone’s health.

How can someone downvote this? 99.9% is low odds...

Sometimes COVID gets compared to flu. Thing is, most people underestimate what flu is like (I suspect this is because of the tendency to say “XYZ got the flu” when they had a common cold).

This is what COVID is like — First roll two D4: If you rolled a 1 in the first, you now have a liver injury; If you rolled a 1 on the other, you lose your sense of smell.

Now roll a D20:

• 1-4: asymptotic but still infectious

• 5-16: somewhere up to “mild pneumonia”

• 17-19: severe symptoms (dyspnea, hypoxia, etc)

• 20: critical symptoms (respiratory failure, shock, or multiorgan dysfunction)

And that’s with treatment. All that “flattening the curve” talk early last year was about making sure people could still get treatment — if you exceed the capacity of the healthcare system, you don’t get to save all the people whose conditions would have been well within your capacity in a non-overloaded system.

Anxiety disorder pervading society. Habituation to an unimaginably high safety standard in modern society.