Things With a Higher Mortality Risk Than COVID-19 if You Are Less Than 70:

posted 95 days ago by benjamin_spankline 95 days ago by benjamin_spankline +13 / -0

You have a higher risk of dying from:

Gun shot (6.6x). Yet you don’t see people waking around with bulletproof vests on.
Hang gliding (3x)
Drowning (1.8x). Yet you don’t see people waking around with oxygen tanks and scuba gear.
Fire or smoke (1.4x). Yet you don’t see people waking around with fire retardant clothes.
Falling (1.8x).
Opioid overdose (20x)
Suicide (23x)
These last two have increased dramatically thanks to the lockdowns.

Weak critics will note that breathing is something you have to do in the course of your day. Well:

Dying in a car accident (20x).
Dying by being struck by a car while waking (3.6x).
Yet we don’t have lockdowns for fear of it, despite others constantly putting you at risk.

Stronger critics will say that none of these are inherently communicable in a basic biological operation, such a breathing. So:

Heart disease (334x). Yet fast food and the lack of exercise isn’t regarded with the same paranoia and aversion.

And my favorite cause it so just so close to COVID in analogy:

HPV is a sexually transmitted virus that causes cancer (284x more likely to die from cancer than COVID). 79,000,000 people in the US are affected, with 14,000,000 new cases each year, 640,000 new cancer diagnoses from HPV per year, and 4000 women will die from that cervical cancer per year. That’s 12x more likely chance of dying from HPV-induced cervical cancer if you are a women than you are at risk of dying from COVID. A vaccine has only been developed in the last decade, HPV has been around for a long time.