Originally Posted by
The Bunglerat
I used to think Americans were crazy with their gun culture and other peculiarities, but I am becoming more and more sympathetic - even agreeable - with their ways. To them, nothing is worth sacrificing individual liberties and freedoms for - not even a virus with a 99% recovery rate. And if Australia's idea of keeping everyone safe in the future is to become a hermit nation and never let anyone go anywhere or do anything, personally I'd rather live dangerously. What's that line from the classic Midnight Oil hit...? "It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees".
I'm always bemused to read pilots proclaiming that a contagious virus with only a 1% chance of killing you (that's a low estimate by the way) is odds worth living with. Meanwhile they pine for the days of old when quads ruled the airways, before unreliable twins with IFSD rates at least 200 times smaller than the covid mortality rate replaced them.