Re:Plans you're not supposed to talk about
by tshaddox on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:07PM
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Consider that causing 1% of the group's population to die might not weaken the group and in fact might make the group stronger.
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Re:Plans you're not supposed to talk about
by XorNot on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:12PM
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Disease doesn't kill "weaker" members of a group, it kills susceptible ones.
The Spanish Flu notably had a much higher mortality amongst younger, healthier people.
Re:Plans you're not supposed to talk about
by jandrese on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:40PM
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COVID however is most fatal to the eldery. Letting it simply rage out of control could push back the social security crisis a few years.
I don't think anything as Machiavellian as this is going on. I think it was all just a culmination of decades anti-expert propaganda and knee-jerk obstructionism coming to a head in a terribly fatal way.
Re:Plans you're not supposed to talk about
by SamoyedFurFluff on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @06:35PM
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The elderly though often serve an important part in society. In particular, they can care for grandchildren.
Re:Plans you're not supposed to talk about
by tshaddox on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:17PM
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I didn't mean some sort of darwinian thing where the average strength goes up. I mean that the strength of the group as a whole could very well increase.
Re:Plans you're not supposed to talk about
by willob33 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:15PM
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He’s effectively describing Trump’s leaked plan to let covid ravage blue urban areas before the election, but here framing it as a liberal plot as a narrative device
Maybe he’s a Republican astroturfer
Someone just learned the root language of real human economics taught to us as abstractions through story and pie chart.
Re:Plans you're not supposed to talk about
by kkjjkgjjgg on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @03:39AM
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People laughing about people believing in conspiracy theories spreading conspiracy theories. No useful comments come to mind, can only watch in awe.
Re:Plans you're not supposed to talk about
by raxxorrax on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @05:38AM
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Consider it a form of entertainment if you can stomach the more morbid aspects of it.