Originally Posted by
Ozgrade3
So we have wiped put our airline industry, decimated our economy......for 6 deaths. By that measure shouldn't we ban cars immediately as we frequently have more than 6 fatalities on the roads in a single day.
It's not what
has happened, it what experts are predicting
will happen....
Imagine the
hypothetical situation.....
NASA have detected an asteroid heading for earth. It will crash down mid afternoon tuesday next week and they reckon it will land right in the centre of the Melbourne CBD. They think it will wipe out everything and everyone in a radius of 50km of the impact point. Other experts have also detected the object. They agree with the impact point and time but think that the object is bigger and that the radius of damage is more like 200km.
Questions for you if you were the one to make the decisions?
1. Would you really use the fact that meteorites have hardly killed anyone in the history of humans as the reason not to evacuate the city?
2. Does the differing expert opinion justify not evacuating the city?
Your argument that more are killed on the roads in a day than by coronavirus in Australia to date is like point 1. As the financial advisors say past experience is not an indicator of future performance. Point 2 is like people arguing about if the death rate is 1% or 4%. Either number (and the number likely to be infected) justifies the measures to contain it...