@joe-shmo said
This is a childish attitude to have. Of course people aren't just numbers, but we need the numbers to get an accurate perspective...otherwise we ( as in yourself ) let irrational emotions make self serving - generally poor decisions that "feel" good instead of actually being good. You want to be a citizen of the world so bad...better get used to looking at the numbers, c ...[text shortened]... great grandparents that catch COVID could die but still having 2 of them die regardless is moronic.
"This is a childish attitude to have. Of course people aren't just numbers,"
Not according to eladar the ashole who has been going on and on about the "low" mortality rate since Covid started to justify his unwillingness to consider any inconvenience inflicted on him by safety measures meant to protect very rwal people and not numbers which according to him are very low.
"better get used to looking at the numbers, "
I am looking at the numbers. I just interpret them differently. If 0.5% off a batch of 330 million apples are rotten i say it's a low number. If 0.5% of the population of a country die I say it's a high and unacceptable number. And if i can lower it by wearing a mask i will do so gladly and demand others do the same. And if we lower that number to 0.2% i still won't consider it a low number, because they are people, not apples.
That's how you make informed decisions. Realize first and foremost we're dealing with people and disqualify sociopaths like eladar from being involved in decision making.
"Shutting down the world because 2 out of 8 great grandparents that catch COVID could die but still having 2 of them die regardless is moronic."
Another example of you straining your brain for five seconds and vomiting this dumb thought soup. And nobody supervised you to say it's dumb before you posted.
Your great example assumes we enact dumb measures that don't have any benefit just for the fun of it. We know social distancing works in slowing down the virus, we know masks work, we know lockdowns work.
Your example is more along the lines of 2 out of 8 human beings (i don't give a fuk you think of old people as subhumans undeserving of dying) die and only 1 out of 20 dying if we enter a lockdown.
Yes, if it will save someone's grandma, stay the fuk indoors.