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by Overton-Window 1777 days ago
A subreddit that questions whether using 1984 as a playbook to quash a disease with a 99.97% survival rate is the right trade-off.
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bdibs 1777 days ago
Which policies in particular do they find 1984-esque?

Also I'm not sure where 99.97% is coming from, I'm getting ~98.3% from the CDC's Data Tracker page. Of course unreported cases could increase that, but it still seems significantly different from whatever source that's from.

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nradov 1777 days ago
The actual CDC best estimate is a 99.4% survival rate overall in the US since the pandemic started.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

Of course the survival rate is much higher than that now for vaccinated people.

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lefrenchy 1777 days ago
If you genuinely think that the fight against COVID-19 is like 1984 i’m certain you haven’t engaged deeply with Orwell’s writings.
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gaetgu 1777 days ago
I don't think that he is implying that COVID == 1984, but rather that there are some massive (surface-level) similarities between the handling of the COVID pandemic and general US policies and the policies in 1984.
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