Millions of deaths worldwide would be kind of “meh” to be honest. In emerging economies like China and India it’s the price paid yearly (lung diseases due to air pollution) in return for faster economic growth. In first world countries it’s a bit more unusual, but even in the most endangered age group the risk is at worst (i.e. complete loss of containment like flu) still only on the same order of magnitude as cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
Overall, not great not terrible. I certainly wouldn’t classify it as a “major global disaster”.
So in India it doesn’t feel like we’re paying that price *yearly* because we’re also getting more food, more access to better water, healthcare etc for that faster economic growth which reduces the number of deaths?
This one doesn’t come with those benefits, I think we wouldn’t be “meh” about even thousands of deaths due to a new disease. :)
Edited to clarify: I parsed the “meh” in your original comment as referring to what the general population (in India or China or maybe the world at large) will think about ‘millions of deaths’, and not your personal opinion on the matter. I figured we were discussing larger societal reaction, because that will impact how the economy does, and (in my mind) make a disaster ‘major’, separate from the sheer number of deaths.
At no point did I think you were ‘for the virus’. Whatever that implies, I expect that to be something very few actual people will be?
Millions of deaths worldwide would be kind of “meh” to be honest. In emerging economies like China and India it’s the price paid yearly (lung diseases due to air pollution) in return for faster economic growth. In first world countries it’s a bit more unusual, but even in the most endangered age group the risk is at worst (i.e. complete loss of containment like flu) still only on the same order of magnitude as cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
Overall, not great not terrible. I certainly wouldn’t classify it as a “major global disaster”.
So in India it doesn’t feel like we’re paying that price *yearly* because we’re also getting more food, more access to better water, healthcare etc for that faster economic growth which reduces the number of deaths?
This one doesn’t come with those benefits, I think we wouldn’t be “meh” about even thousands of deaths due to a new disease. :)
I’m totally against the coronavirus if that’s what you’re wondering about; didn’t think I’d need to signal that.
Eh? no. You didn’t need to signal that.
Edited to clarify: I parsed the “meh” in your original comment as referring to what the general population (in India or China or maybe the world at large) will think about ‘millions of deaths’, and not your personal opinion on the matter. I figured we were discussing larger societal reaction, because that will impact how the economy does, and (in my mind) make a disaster ‘major’, separate from the sheer number of deaths.
At no point did I think you were ‘for the virus’. Whatever that implies, I expect that to be something very few actual people will be?