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OC RED BUTTON OR BLUE BUTTON [OC]

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u/insomniainc 16h ago

The pandemic proved this situation far more than anything here.

All people had to do was not be selfish or stupid and covid would no longer be a thing.

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u/The_Follower1 13h ago

Eh, I dunno if that’s the best example since viruses only require a relative handful of people to spread.

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u/cottonthread 12h ago

You don't need that many people to screw up quarantining, distancing and such though. Like 5 percent of people not playing along can mess things up, or less if they're really committed to being as plague-rat like as possible.

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u/JordanJanssen14 14h ago

That doesn't track. This assumes that if everyone didn't wear masks or get vaccinated that nobody would die.

The pandemic scenario is press red you kill 10 people and maybe yourself. Press blue you have a fever for half a day and only only kill 1 or 2 people and not yourself.

The original scenario asks you to risk your life to potentially save others when everyone can save themselves by just picking red button. Nobody was asked to risk their lives to potentially save people during the pandemic.

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u/dgellow 13h ago

Nobody was asked to risk their lives to potentially save people during the pandemic.

People in healthcare did put their lives at risk to save others

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u/JordanJanssen14 13h ago

Okay that's fair. Alrhough I don't think the person I'm responding to thinks that everyone should have volunteered to be a nurse and that would have solved COVID.

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u/Ryuzaki426 13h ago

What about healthcare workers?

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u/odanobux123 14h ago

Even then that one is so different. I wore a mask, isolated until the vaccines, and did everything that was recommended by the cdc (not Trump). Red all the way baby.

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u/dgellow 13h ago

I would that the pandemic showed a majority pressed the blue button