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it would indeed, as it posits spurious claims and is factually inaccurate, ER doctor or not. The fact is, over 150k have died in the US due to COVID, and this
by hootbootscoot 6y ago
it would indeed, as it posits spurious claims and is factually inaccurate, ER doctor or not.
The fact is, over 150k have died in the US due to COVID, and this exceeds the US death toll from any known war, so there's no real minimizing such a figure.
It's likely precisely due to a failure to contain the spread of the causative virus, precisely due to waffling around lockdown.
- zarkov99 6y agoHow is it factually incorrect?
- neonate 6y ago> over 150k have died in the US due to COVID, and this exceeds the US death toll from any known war US deaths in WWII: 419k (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties)
- triceratops 6y agoPerhaps they meant in a single year of any war? Not to mention, we have 1/3 of this year left to go.
- bobloblaw45 6y agoMaybe he didn't know about that war?
- chrisjs96 6y ago80k died in 2017-2018 US flu season. I'm sorry but where was the shutdown? Luckily this whole thing is going to be gone November 4th.
- dane-pgp 6y ago"Only" 80k died from flu, without needing a shutdown, but 150k have died from covid-19 even with a shutdown, so how is that an argument against the covid-19 shutdown? At best it's an argument that we should do more to stop flu deaths, but at worst it amounts to "If someone ever dies of any preventable cause then we should never take any measures to prevent any other death".