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RedPixel posted...

Life goes on. If you want to stay home and live in victimhood mentality, go for it. Don't force your insecurities of the real world onto me.

Answer the question, if you really aren't afraid.

OhhhJa posted...

Not really an equivalent scenario. You're not factoring in the limited odds of actually contracting the virus in the first place on top of the mortality rate. And on top of that, the mortality can't factor in all the asymptomatic people or those with mild symptoms that never even get tested in the first place

Sure, it's not perfectly equivalent, but at least part of that discrepancy is covered by the fact that you're ~8 times less likely to roll four 1's than to be killed by Covid (0.077%), and I'm okay with saying that the rest of it is mitigated by the reality that "playing" is likely to entail forcing multiple other people to also play against their will, plus the fact that infection will stop being an unlikely outcome if everything returns to normal the way people like him want it to.

Basically, if you want to dismiss Covid because its mortality rate isn't all that high, you need to consider what those odds actually mean. Rolling double snake eyes is something pretty much anyone that's played any appreciable number of dice-based games has experienced. It's very uncommon and you probably won't see it on any given set of four rolls, but it definitely happens, and attaching such a dire consequence to it as death is enough to dissuade most people from rolling in the first place.

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