That’s why it’s gambling baby, you don’t get to know what the consequences will be.
Just make sure you don’t end up in the sequel to Malmuth’s “Bad Gambles of History” or whatever the fuck that book was called.
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$50k probably. Im low risk enough that I should be fine. Probably gonna get it eventually since wife and I are both back to work. I’m probably too low on that number, but a little jaded in that everyone around me currently is sneezing.
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Yeah 50K is about what I came up with. Like definitely yes for 100K, definitely no for 10K, so split the difference and we’ll talk.
I guess mine should be higher than US residents though as my chance of contracting it anyway is way lower.
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I’m spooked enough by the possibility of long-term “side effects” for this to be a very high number. I run and workout every day, it’s a huge part of my life. Almost impossible to put a price tag on the risk of losing that. If I die my family gets my life insurance at least. If I have some sort of long term disability, oy.
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Yea my number would be way higher than $100k, and that’s a significant amount of money for me. The long term lung and heart issues are the deal breaker for me. I need them both in working order to enjoy my active lifestyle.
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There’s no sum of money I’d take, because of age and asthma.
I think it’s interesting though because while I’m not saying COVID = flu, influenza absolutely does cause severe illness and long term complications even in healthy younger people. For example, in the age group 18-49, some 67,000 people were hospitalised with the flu in the 2018-19 season in the United States. And influenza is known to cause cardiovascular and respiratory injury as well. Whether those rates are similar to COVID I don’t know, but I certainly don’t think there is conclusive evidence they are strongly different. But if you’re anything like me, you couldn’t even be bothered to go and get a flu vaccine prior to this. I’m not saying you’re necessarily wrong to want a lot of money, but it’s a lesson in the effect of salience.
50K ain’t gonna pay for the medical bills if you get permanently disabled from covid.
At least 1mil for me
Also, one of my students has covid19. So far it’s more like the flu and he’s only had it for a few days as of this post. But it definitely sucks. Hope he checks out negative before school.
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Like even if you think the flu is less harmful by a factor of 100, if you’re not taking $100,000 for COVID but you wouldn’t get a flu vaccine for 20 bucks or whatever it is in your healthcare hellhole over there, you need to rethink your risk evaluation.
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Getting the flu fucked with my exercise regime so much from 2016 - 2019 that starting last October or so I began getting crazy about germs - carrying a handkerchief to open doors, hand sanitizing, washing hands religiously. And of course I get a flu shot every year. So while I probably engage in other life behaviors that are inconsistent with this level of worry about COVID, flu avoidance definitely isn’t one of them. I really really really don’t want COVID, but I definitely don’t want the flu either and was acting accordingly before COVID showed up.
Fair enough, but you take my point about salience. A lot of the concern about COVID is motivated more by people reading about it 24/7 than it is by it being a threat of a dimension that has never appeared before.
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Right. Lots of people being super cautious about COVID while texting and driving every day, for instance.
I have a bit of the same thoughts about people I see on like Twitter and whatever being like OH MY GOD, 150,000 DEAD, THIS IS A TRAGEDY OF A DIMENSION I CAN’T EVEN COMPREHEND, I WEEP FOR THEM and it’s like… 2.8 million people die in the US every year and prior to this you just lived your life and didn’t even think about it. Again this is absolutely NOT to say that COVID is not a public health problem worth worrying about, or to say that it’s not a tragedy that these people died when they didn’t have to. It’s more that if that rocks your world, it’s because you had an insular view of the world in the first place, not really cognizant of the tragedy that was already going on.
It’s not wrong but more importantly it’s a well-informed decision and not one that you will regret.
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Also I used to get one of those, but I stopped after he didn’t make the jump from 2+2.
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Took about 3 seconds to find her FB, she’s a Q anti-vaxxer. Also, EDM DJ.
We can get some sort of prisoner exchange going. The covidiots in Melbourne can move to USA and we can get an unstucker.
But haven’t you heard that all the excess deaths are due to mass suicides from draconian lockdowns?