Not to the people who survive.
Sometimes it's about more than stats.
The value of a human life cannot be measured in numbers.
The decisions you make to get the most people into the life boat have to be unemotional. Take the Army’s Course in Combat Casualties. You learn how to make all these choices. On the battlefield. Where these choices belong. Not in the ER like they are doing in every urban center right now.
“Not to be too callous but at this time it’s statistically trivial.”
Whenever I hear people talk like this, and year after year I seem to hear it more, I think, “Ok, if that’s so, we will start with you, or your mom, or your kids.”