SpecialOlympian wrote:A pandemic is not a black swan. It's a completely predictable but statistically unlikely event, like a "100 year storm/food/etc."
As daffy as you are, sometimes you have something interesting to say. That's an interesting point. Not to put too fine a point on it, but we can't prove that something like Covid-19 is going to happen. We just expect a pandemic generally speaking to occur statistically. Statistically unlikely events aren't easily predicted in terms of time. They also aren't easily predicted in terms of their nature. Coronavirus is a very different pandemic from the Black Death, for example--but not completely unlike the Spanish Influenza. Pandemics are recurring, but their nature isn't due to something else we can postulate: mutation. If they were "completely predictable" as you've suggested, we could in theory have a response to every conceivable pandemic.
Julian658 wrote:I say that humans do not have the same level of intelligence just as they do not have the same height. Is this a problematic for you?
It's problematic for a lot of people.
Pants-of-dog wrote:They seem to think that letting thousands of people die is a good response to the Coronavirus.
Why do you think that is stupid? They may have a number of thoughts that lead to such a conclusion. For example, most of those who die have a near term probability of dying anyway; and, the younger victims usually have a chronic health condition or a viral load consistent with ignoring public warnings. This is entirely consistent with "survival of the fittest," which is a rational approach to thought albeit not a very compassionate one.
Patrickov wrote:Any pro-establishment people are stupid.
I tend to disagree with that assertion. There are a lot of very smart people who are cowards. There are a lot of very smart people who are lazy. There are a lot of very smart people who are unprincipled.
Pants-of-dog wrote:The fact that a minority of Trump supporters may disagree with a certain policy does not change the fact that most of them seem unintelligent.
That may be simply your affinity for egalitarianism and your slightly right shifted IQ.
maz wrote:Apparently for the coronavirus cultists in the media, it's ok for people to fuck off and die from anything else except for the coronavirus.
You have a very good point, but it's likely to fall on deaf ears around here. People have come to expect death from the seasonal flu, because it's mostly old people ready to die anyway. Coronavirus is a more ruthless reaper. Malaria happens in the third world, and the first world doesn't care. Suicides are by ones own hand, not an unseen enemy. And so on. People rationalize away much more common causes of death. That's why I find it interesting that the left seems panicked by Coronavirus when it would solve many of their problems from consumption to over-population, to the unsustainability of the geriatric weighted welfare state's unsustainability, to global warming. Yet, suddenly these people are concerned about a solution to many of their problems.
Rancid wrote:The fact that deaths by abortion is listed indicates this is indented for a very specific audience. I think it would be better if that were not there, so that it's clearly more neutral looking. The point is still made without the abortion statistic.
Specific audience... maybe. It's also to point out that some people are only bothered by certain kinds of death--like the death of people they know and love, not people in a jungle somewhere, or some gay drug addicts. Coronavirus doesn't give anyone the comfort of moral superiority, except for hermits and the socially aloof.
Julian658 wrote:People in the left despise Trump and they will do anything they can to bring him down.
Many on the right have the same opinion. I like him, because he disrupts the system and I understand exactly how he appeals to the masses.
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