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Re:Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among p... by Pyramus on Monday January 10, 2022 @07:19AM (#29873678)
> that a small percentage of vulnerable people can prolong their life for a few years

What do you even mean? The population-weighted infection fatality rate is somewhere around 0.8% (for vanilla SARS-CoV-2), can you even imagine what that would mean in terms of deaths alone? We are not even talking about hospitalisations or severe cases or chronic disease, or the collapse of critical infrastructure and the economy.

I don't get this "Covid is just a problem for the old and weak" rhetoric, is that the society you want to live in?

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Re:Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among p... by AussieWog93 on Monday January 10, 2022 @07:05PM (#29885052)
Is 0.8% of people dying really worse than 100% of people enduring two years of crushing misery?

Call it cold, but I'd rather live in a society where we throw the old and weak under the bus rather than make life unbearable for all.

Hell, I suspect even if I were old and weak I would have rather died surrounded by my family and friends in 2020 instead of gone through two years of isolation only to die alone in 2022.

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