> The extra dozen deaths from this new virus really don't change my existing habits
This is either deliberately misleading, or you are not properly able to reason about and understand exponential growth. No one cares about 12 deaths. It's the exponential growth in something that has the potential to be the flu, but roughly 10x worse.
This is either deliberately misleading, or you are not properly able to reason about and understand exponential growth. No one cares about 12 deaths. It's the exponential growth in something that has the potential to be the flu, but roughly 10x worse.