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Re:18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated by ryandrake on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:55AM (#25917222)
Since we're doing scenarios, what do we do when a hypothetical COVID-21 comes along which is 20x deadlier and kills uniformly across age ranges? Do we simply ignore it because we're tired of stay-at-home and we all gotta live our (now potentially shorter) lives?
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Re:18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated by umanwizard on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:12AM (#25917465)
Yes, if there were a virus that killed 10% of people of all ages and was as contagious as Covid-19, it would be a civilization-level threat and it would be worth extreme measures to attempt to stop its spread (I'm not optimistic that it _could_ be stopped, but it'd at least be worth trying). What's your point?
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Re:18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated by ryandrake on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @01:58PM (#25919765)
It's that fundamentally, our opinions are similar: There exists some point beyond which the threat is great enough to change our lifestyle permanently. We simply disagree about exactly where that point is.
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