So in India it doesn’t feel like we’re paying that price *yearly* because we’re also getting more food, more access to better water, healthcare etc for that faster economic growth which reduces the number of deaths?
This one doesn’t come with those benefits, I think we wouldn’t be “meh” about even thousands of deaths due to a new disease. :)
Edited to clarify: I parsed the “meh” in your original comment as referring to what the general population (in India or China or maybe the world at large) will think about ‘millions of deaths’, and not your personal opinion on the matter. I figured we were discussing larger societal reaction, because that will impact how the economy does, and (in my mind) make a disaster ‘major’, separate from the sheer number of deaths.
At no point did I think you were ‘for the virus’. Whatever that implies, I expect that to be something very few actual people will be?
So in India it doesn’t feel like we’re paying that price *yearly* because we’re also getting more food, more access to better water, healthcare etc for that faster economic growth which reduces the number of deaths?
This one doesn’t come with those benefits, I think we wouldn’t be “meh” about even thousands of deaths due to a new disease. :)
I’m totally against the coronavirus if that’s what you’re wondering about; didn’t think I’d need to signal that.
Eh? no. You didn’t need to signal that.
Edited to clarify: I parsed the “meh” in your original comment as referring to what the general population (in India or China or maybe the world at large) will think about ‘millions of deaths’, and not your personal opinion on the matter. I figured we were discussing larger societal reaction, because that will impact how the economy does, and (in my mind) make a disaster ‘major’, separate from the sheer number of deaths.
At no point did I think you were ‘for the virus’. Whatever that implies, I expect that to be something very few actual people will be?