I was thinking in terms of cures or vaccines for diseases. So we know a lot of people died, and will continue to die from other diseases, but these bits aren’t new, while the reduction in death toll is. (Bonus: they’re also a lot less rare than I thought.)
Hm. Well, this I have not thought about in detail, but my immediate emotional reaction is “so what?” which is not really helpful to me on any count.
This is probably exacerbated by the aforementioned difficulty in determining “could have beens”. I will sit on this question overnight and see what happens.
I was thinking in terms of cures or vaccines for diseases. So we know a lot of people died, and will continue to die from other diseases, but these bits aren’t new, while the reduction in death toll is. (Bonus: they’re also a lot less rare than I thought.)
Hm. Well, this I have not thought about in detail, but my immediate emotional reaction is “so what?” which is not really helpful to me on any count.
This is probably exacerbated by the aforementioned difficulty in determining “could have beens”. I will sit on this question overnight and see what happens.