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Re:Show HN: The Odds of Dying from Covid-19 Compared to Risk... by phscguy on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @07:15PM (#28688569)
The lack of standard scaling of amount of activity breaks this chart. Rock climbing is given as roughly the same death rate as heroin addiction: 0.0145% vs 0.016% per year. But the chart counts 100 years of heroin addiction versus only one year of rock climbing and so misrepresents the risk by a factor of 100.

Also otherwise missing units of time for many of the activities.

Re:Show HN: The Odds of Dying from Covid-19 Compared to Risk... by andrewseanryan on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @07:47PM (#28688776)
Fantastic point. This is a work in progress so I can address it. Many thanks for your thoughts.
Re:Show HN: The Odds of Dying from Covid-19 Compared to Risk... by jobigoud on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:40PM (#28696178)
Maybe you can look at micromorts, it's a unit of risk designed exactly to make these kind of comparisons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort