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by twomoretime 2241 days ago
>You realize that alcohol related deaths top 80,000 per year in the US?

Alcohol consumption is a voluntary, pleasurable activity for the vast majority of drinkers, and the complication rate is many orders of magnitude lower than it is for COVID.

Alcohol and COVID aren't anywhere close to the same league. This comparison doesn't make sense.

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To put this in perspective: even responded to, covid has the capacity to double the amount of deaths per year, compared to normal. That is rather higher than alcohol.