Mmm, not sure about the numbers here. If you're a young, healthy person, Covid is not particularly dangerous. If you're a young, healthy, inner-city black man, police are actually very dangerous. Seems to me very plausible that the chances of dying in a police stop are higher than dying of covid for some demographics.
If you're a young, healthy person, Covid is not particularly dangerous. If you're a young, healthy, inner-city black man, police are actually very dangerous.
The point is - it's a non-sequitur, regardless. It's like saying: "As a member of group X, I'm more worried about the prospect of being stopped by the police than I am about getting killed or maimed in a car wreck. Therefore, I don't wear a seatbelt."
Sure, but it might change how motivated you are to address threats that don't meet your everyday minima. Nobody worries about being eaten by a bear in manhattan because it's not very likely - you're much more likely to get hit by a car, or eaten by your neighbor even. So you see people preparing against those threats, and not devoting any time to the bears-in-manhattan threat vector. This seems rational to me.
So you see people preparing against those threats, and not devoting any time to the bears-in-manhattan threat vector.
Except Covid risk - especially if you work in crowded spaces, ride the subway, or go to bars and clubs - is much, much greater than from bears in the park.
