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More US children have died from Covid than US people die from lightning strikes in 10 years, so I wonder if you've not quite compared like for like there.
by maxerickson 5y ago
More US children have died from Covid than US people die from lightning strikes in 10 years, so I wonder if you've not quite compared like for like there.
- natmaka 5y ago"Deaths from COVID ‘incredibly rare’ among children" Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01897-w/ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01897-w/
- maxerickson 5y agoYeah, so? The US has attributed hundreds of deaths to Covid among those under 18, compared to a couple dozen lightning deaths a year in total.
- tinus_hn 5y agoWell there is your exaggeration: you claim ‘hundreds’ while the article states ‘25’. Which is pretty similar to ‘couple dozen’.
- maxerickson 5y agoThe US is not England.
- tinus_hn 5y agoThat is true, and I see the chances of being killed by lightning are pretty slim. So the chances of any child in the US dying from covid-19 turns out to be about 70 times as much as that child dying from lightning. Still, extremely unlikely.