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@shmibs @lain @nosleep
"far more people die of x" is a shitty argument and there is never a case where it is valid.
find another argument
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@lain @nosleep @shmibs
make sure to walk through traffic because far more people die from the flu than traffic accidents every year
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@shmibs
the flu is a global pandemic we don't need another one. the hubbub is because there is reasonable scepticism that the chinese government is actually containing this one considering the steps that it has taken so far have been far more desperate than previous epidemics that have had a higher body count. they did not shut down beijing for SARS or swine flu.
new epidemics occur every year and there are really only three options.
1. people go through the great effort to contain it and the losses arent that bad (SARS)
2. people fail to contain it but it ended up not being that dangerous (H1N1)
3. people fail to contain it and it actually ends up being dangerous. (Every pre-modern plague)
My only issue is that "x kills more people" in the context of a developing epidemic is a non-sequitur argument because lethality is not the factor that influences how urgent of a response a disease requires, and because lethality and virulence is currently unknown.
what the news says doesn't have any correlation with how important something is but reversed stupidity is not intelligence.
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@shmibs
expecting a sense of proportion from humans is basically impossible. i'm prepped to work from home for a month but i'm not emotionally effected in any way by news.
i only replied because i was triggered by bad arguments on a epistemic level.
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