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Your numbers are simply not accurate. And equating this to mosquito-borne disease is not reasonable. Mosquitoes aren’t being radicalized by the far right, they
by king_magic 7y ago
Your numbers are simply not accurate. And equating this to mosquito-borne disease is not reasonable. Mosquitoes aren’t being radicalized by the far right, they aren’t living in an increasingly polarized society, and they certainly don’t blow orange size exit wounds in people.
*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2019 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_th...
- rayiner 7y agoYou’re right, I was looking at a chart through 2016. Looks like about 120 this year. Still, the average is under 80 over the same period over which west Nile killed 100 per year on average. And the peak this year is still below the 284 killed by west Nile in one year.
- king_magic 7y agoThere were 15 West Nile deaths in the US in 2019. It’s not even close to the same thing. https://www.cdc.gov/westnile/statsmaps/preliminarymapsdata2019/disease-cases-state-2019.html https://www.cdc.gov/westnile/statsmaps/preliminarymapsdata20...
- rayiner 7y agoWe don’t have full 2019 data. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Nile_virus_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Nile_virus_in_the_Unite... > Since the virus has become widely established in the U.S., an average of 130 deaths a year occurred.
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