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Re:The end of the pandemic is near by wiz21c on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @06:28AM (#27288592)
for an individual, it's "good" if you accept to have one chance over 50 to die of it.

for a population, it's a lot of deaths.

all depends if you think "you first" or "the other first"

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Re:The end of the pandemic is near by soonnow on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @07:58AM (#27289326)
Well I just did a test with a tool for lung cancer risk. Assuming I smoked half a pack a day for 25 years and stopped at 40, my risk would be 1 in 1000.

Yet noone would say it's "good" to smoke. Even if the risk is 10% of the risk of dying of COVID.

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Re:The end of the pandemic is near by majewsky on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:22AM (#27290831)
A 2% death chance may look small on its face, but Covid is not the only thing you can die from. If you accept a 2% death chance ten separate times, your death chance overall is 18.3%. I bet those are numbers which a lot of people won't be comfortable with anymore.
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