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Just in case anyone's confused (I was at first), the title refers to COVID deaths only. The all cause US death toll was ~7,700 per day over the 2017-2019 period
by cjlars 6y ago
Just in case anyone's confused (I was at first), the title refers to COVID deaths only. The all cause US death toll was ~7,700 per day over the 2017-2019 period, and has likely exceeded the 9/11 number (2,996) every day for decades.
- tonmoy 6y agoSure, but all case numbers are not preventable like COVID (assuming people dying from COVID would’ve been fine otherwise)
- disown 6y agoMost of our deaths are preventable as we mostly die of excess - obesity related issues, smoking, drugs, etc.
- bigbubba 6y ago*delayable.
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- thu2111 6y agoHow are COVID deaths preventable? They generally haven't been and still aren't. Especially given that so many deaths labelled COVID deaths are of people who were about to die anyway and the COVID label took priority over other causes. All lockdowns were ever meant to do originally was temporarily delay the inevitable to ensure everyone got a hospital bed if they needed one, to give their bodies a better chance. But hospitals were never overwhelmed or even at any risk of being overwhelmed: the places that didn't lock down and saw incidence curves the same as everywhere else have now proven that. So in the end they had no real health impact in the positive direction, yet they've definitely killed people. In the UK about half of all excess death in the first wave wasn't even COVID related, let alone COVID caused. That's the human price of government mandates.
- Karellen 6y agoYou realise that 9/11 deaths refers to Al Qaeda-caused deaths only. The all cause US death toll was also several thousand per day over the 2001 period, and may have exceeded the Al Qaeda-caused excess deaths on 9/11 in any case.