There were 3,157 Covid-19 deaths reported Wednesday -- an all-time high for the pandemic -- and health care systems are struggling to support the weight of worsening impacts.
30,000 die every year from fucking cars slamming into each other and other shit. 500,000 (!!!) die from fucking tobacco diseases. every damn year.
At least with these deaths one can make some plausible argument in the form of "well there's a balance to be struck between safety and convenience, or safety and the desire to use intoxicants." Any sort of similar argument with covid falls flat when you look at how much better other countries have contained it.
Yeah, the cars argument isn't good, just plausible. At least cars have some benefit, and while a major overhaul of urban transportation would be far safer, such an overhaul would have real costs.
With covid, there are about a hundred ways to imagine a response that would save way more lives and be far less costly.
At least with these deaths one can make some plausible argument in the form of "well there's a balance to be struck between safety and convenience, or safety and the desire to use intoxicants." Any sort of similar argument with covid falls flat when you look at how much better other countries have contained it.
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Yeah, the cars argument isn't good, just plausible. At least cars have some benefit, and while a major overhaul of urban transportation would be far safer, such an overhaul would have real costs.
With covid, there are about a hundred ways to imagine a response that would save way more lives and be far less costly.
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