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"One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic"
It was Bernie Sanders right?
Rising Star
Hmmmm most of the responses here miss OP’s point. Cuomo said it well “it’s already tragic.”
What this means is that, regardless of the number of eventual deaths, those lost are real people who will be missed and are irreplaceable. And, despite them being strangers, we are part of the same human family.
OP is not being emotional. This is an entirely rational response to a serious situation.
Rising Star
PwC2 — I hear what you are saying, but do we know that’s what OP thinks? It’s possible they’re concerned equally about those issues.
Regardless, my point is that compassion is rational and, let’s face, it arises from our common humanity which includes as you point out our common fears around mortality.
We don't really see strangers as people like that. It just physically doesn't cause the same reaction in our brains. We max at like 50-200 people or so. We just didn't evolve to empathize at this scale.
We know this is bad, but we just don't FEEL it's bad until it's in that closer, personal scale.
2020 - 24,000 deaths in the US due to Flu. 2,400 due to Covid19...just saying.
Pro
Manager 3. Yes I did. And that’s a lot of people. And one of the reasons I didn’t take this as seriously as I should have like three months ago when my husband told me I should be concerned about it (he does business continuity for a Fortune 100 and therefore has to track all of these things and predict risk and develop response). But I spent a crap ton of time reading everything I could and realize I was wrong before.
The government is projecting 100,000 - 250,000 assuming we keep most of the country shutdown. 80,000 people died of the flu even though we all lived life as normal. You can’t compare the two numbers. We could have had millions die if we had done nothing during this outbreak. For the flu we have hundreds of years of exposure (and thus partial immunity), antivirals, and a vaccine to help us keep the numbers down. We also prep our hospitals each year for the flu and is factored into number of beds available, supply purchases, etc. annually. We have none of that for COVID-19.
Because a few deaths aren’t a big deal in the grand scheme of things
Chief
Honestly, for me, it’s because so many people die every day from various things. I read on any given day in the world, 150,000 people die from things like accidents, cancer, etc. Tragedies happen all the time.
Thx for your observations, chief...
What’s your point?
Because, unfortunately lives are now just numbers. It’s our fact of life...thankfully we have the power to track it and we are not being blown up by explosives. This is our version of a world war.
What are you even talking about