Comments by "betabenja" (@betabenja) on "Young people are driving the pandemic says the WHO" video.

  1.  @thesure1  again, it's a bit ingenuous to compare the cumulative effects over a time period where one of the factors did not even exist, no?
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  2. "DNA to our own 2 strand DNA, thus making 3 stranded DNA" lol. what's the chemical structure of that, genius?
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  3. has a death rate 20 times higher than its neighbours
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  4.  @riggermortisfpv526  a global comparison is silly, yes. but for scandinavia, where the people live very similar cultural lives, with much the same environmental and social pressures and behaviours, you'd expect the rates to be similar. And, that is pretty much proven out for norway and finland, and to a lesser extent denmark which is on the european mainland. All these countries show similar rates of death. Sweden is very much an outlier. why? they did not lock down.
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  5.  @riggermortisfpv526  what body of researchers does he represent? I'll find their official position.
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  6. ​ @thesure1  what exactly is your point? of your stats, 1.2 milliion are deaths not of their own fault, like covid. covid is nearing 800,000 deaths worldwide in half the time. so, for deaths which are not self-induced idiocy, covid is beating smoking, not 10x less.
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  7.  @thesure1  no, you're considering the smoking deaths that the health services cannot do anything about - those where the participants are voluntarily killing themselves. health services cannot do anything about this, it's their choice, are you going to remove their freedoms when only they suffer from their own actions? no. We should be comparing cases where the deaths are from passive smoking, as these victims cannot do anything about it, just like they cannot do anything about covid. In both cases, the government can step in because those that are harmed need protection from others. That is what this thread is about- protection from other's harm. The post about tobacco was "what are we doing about tobacco?". well, if you count only what the government can do, protect against deaths caused by others, you should be choosing the 1.2 million tobacco deaths. this makes covid a far higher priority target for government intervention.
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  8. hilarious.
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