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Russian Roulette has 1-6 odds, COVID is much closer to 1-6000 than it is to 1-6.


You may be surprised to hear this - but it's actually the case that fewer people died this year to Russian Roulette than to COVID - and a lot of those people didn't volunteer to spin the wheel. I don't think the specifics about proportional chance of loss are particularly relevant.


You may be surprised to hear this - but you need to normalize for frequency to make a meaningful comparison.




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