Still picking my jaw up after this one. So "We as a society" should be prepared to let 100–250K people die per year of a largely preventable disease so that the "average person" can pretend everything's fine. Instead of acting to limit the spread, ensure clean air, etc.
@TriciaDearborn Don’t use numbers when you don’t understand them?
@TriciaDearborn @DonEford Yep. That’s why:
@TriciaDearborn @DonEford Yep. That’s why:
@TriciaDearborn @MDaware In my limited experience, death is something that only ever happens to *other* people.
@TriciaDearborn I believe the thin end of the wedge was inserted by the car industry. So many deaths per year, and people just shrug and call it "the road toll". The price of convenience
@TriciaDearborn we can also cause permanent damage to the health of untold others
@TriciaDearborn It's okay because we're forcing people to replace the ones we lose.
@TriciaDearborn @TaylorLorenz i don't know why he would say we need to "prepare" for such death-rates, because we've already had them for the last 3 years (and counting).
@TriciaDearborn @BinsQuan Couldn't believe the hubris.
@TriciaDearborn @KateSpitzmiller Of course with 10% getting LC, we will have a severely degraded workforce and an overburdened healthcare system. Imagine a world with 2-3x more cardiac patients, T1D patients and dementia/Alzheimer's patients. The health care system will collapse.