The argument that "life is always full of risks, so just live your life" is difficult to counter b/c it involves an extremely nuanced analysis of the situation ...
(explaining just how serious a one-in-ten chance is, understanding how population health and anecdotal observations cannot be compared, asking people to be concerned about the health of perfect strangers, & the list goes on and on) ...
Most people are constitutionally incapable of actually understanding the seriousness of this time in human history. If climate change doesn't get us first (& wow, that's a whole other discussion), society will be weaker and sicker for generations to come.
No matter how much governments try to manipulate the statistics, we will see a significant and sustained drop in life expectancy as long as mitigation efforts are laughed at and not implemented...
Maybe one day--a century from now?--this time will be known as the YOLO period. You only live once, so forget about all the rest. end/
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