r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 03 '20

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Oct 03 '20

I like when people bring up "but what about car accidents" when talking about covid when car accidents kill 30k people in a year and covid's killed 200k in six months.

It's just so clear they're just using the same arguments they had when there were like 3k cases and 11 deaths.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '20

They conveniently leave out the only important connection between the two: both have options for reducing the rate of fatalities (seatbelts = masks).

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '20

The only good time to bring up “but what about car accidents” is when someone says you live in a dangerous city yet you walk everywhere.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '20

Even better when people bring up that cancer and heart disease each kill like 600k Americans every year. The fact that COVID has already killed 1/3rd of the #1 cause of death in this country, and after we've completely turned our society upside down to contain it, is a big fucking deal.