[mehrdadn]

The problem is the risks are orders of magnitude more than the "tradeoffs we make all the time", and clearly not enough people understand this. 40K/300M is 0.013%. It's nothing compared to coronavirus hospitalization or even death rates.

[treis]

That's an annual number while Coronavirus is one and done. A better comparison would be lifetime risk of dying in a car accident.

[mehrdadn]

Okay, feel free to slice and dice it however you want and share the results.

[umanwizard]

The lifetime risk of dying in a car accident is about 1% in the US, according to https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-mortalit... .

[mehrdadn]

And you're equating a lifetime chance with a < 1 year chance because... why? Is having a 1% chance of dying in the next hour the same to you as having a 1% chance of dying in the next 100 years? Is having a 99% chance of dying in the next hour the same to you as having a 99% chance of dying in the next 100 years?

[totony]

I'd assume when you apply that comparison to society at large it becomes close to the same thing.