[smnrchrds]

> How will a virus that hurts <1% of people devastate economies, lockdowns or not?

Imagine 1% (or 0.5% or 0.2% or whatever) of planes crashed. How well do you think the airlines would fare? How many people would still fly?

1% is an insanely high number of deaths.

[pjc50]

0.1% of London bus drivers died: https://www.ioshmagazine.com/2020/08/11/london-bus-driver-co...

If they were dying in bus crashes, people would notice.

[anoncake]

1% is not insanely high, it's roughly how many people die each year.

[CRConrad]

anoncake writes:

> 1% is not insanely high, it's roughly how many people die each year.

So another percent on top of that is a doubling. As many people again dying from Covid-19 as die from all other causes. How is that NOT “insanely” high?

[Izkata]

Given the average age of covid deaths, there's probably something like 80-90% overlap there. Nowhere near double.

[anoncake]

How much does people dying disrupt our lives every year? Not at all, basically. Two times "not at all" still isn't much.

[joshuamorton]

Then indeed, doubling the number of people who die would be significant.

[anoncake]

Of course, but so is the damage caused by lockdowns.

[joshuamorton]

Are you suggesting that lockdowns are doubling the number of animal deaths?