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bregma on April 8, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The leading cause of death in the US on Apr 6 was ...

So, "they were going to die anyway." This just in: we're all going to die anyway.

When you're lying on your deathbed drowning in the effluvia of necrotic lung tissue at least you can rest easy in the knowledge that your humanity didn't count and you're just a statistic, but at least you helped a wealthy person avoid not making as much money as he could have.

mc32 on April 8, 2020 [–]

That’s not it. You develop a protocol to avoid as much as possible exposing those who are susceptible to the disease if that can be determined.

If we know that one part of the population can withstand the disease well and another is susceptible to it we can develop ways to navigate that.

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