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Dr. Bobsky
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2020-03-29, 18:10

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That and health related deaths are always viewed differently, because they are on an individual level. Something like 9/11 was more of an attack on an idea, or culture, than the individuals who died in the attack. Society has historically looked at those who die of poor health as weak, and not worth worrying about. Survival of the fittest and all that. That is why there are those today who think that we should stop the social distancing and such measures and just go back to normal. It all comes down to what people value at the end of the day.

I know a few individuals who see this virus and it killing people as a good thing, and think it is natures way of controlling the human population.
These people are idiots. The world population grows at an annual rate of ~1%, even if every single person got the disease and 10% died at the same distribution as in Italy, the world's population would recover in less than a decade, possibly sooner with all the quarantine babies coming at the end of this year...
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