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Re:Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surve... by 6nf on Monday October 11, 2021 @09:41PM (#28835107)
I'm using the australian numbers

So you found one number in my argument that you dont like and that invalidates my entire point? Is that what you're saying? What number would you prefer instead of the 85? Does that change everything?

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Re:Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surve... by javagram on Monday October 11, 2021 @09:42PM (#28835113)
Why use the Australian numbers to argue that AU should have taken the USA’s approach of unrestricted covid spreading?

Australia’s numbers won’t match what happens when covid-19 spreads widely, because they successfully stopped it.

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Re:Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surve... by javagram on Monday October 11, 2021 @11:48PM (#28835845)
Just realized (I think) you edited in the later sentences after I replied.

Yea, it does invalidate your point, the average years of life lost from a Covid-19 death is fourteen not a few as you suggested. Many, many people lost more than a decade of productive, happy life to this virus in countries where it was allowed to spread. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/06/16/americans-l...

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Re:Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surve... by 6nf on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @12:26AM (#28836050)
So we're spending $20m on 14 years of life.
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