Opinion | What if Covid Were 10 Times Deadlier? – The New York Times

Before the pandemic I once built a column around the psychiatrist-blogger Scott Alexander s concept of the scissor, which describes a controversy or idea or event perfectly calibrated to divide people while making them think that the other side is bonkers. Arguably Covid s death rate makes it a perfect scissor: It s high enough to make the alarmed feel vindicated, but still low enough that many skeptics feel vindicated as well.

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Indeed. And if gravity were even .00000001 percent stronger, we wouldn’t have had Covid at all.