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Megadeath? That’s a little extreme considering that the death rate has been tapering for some time. On the other hand, the administration and CDC have been runn
by codeddesign 5y ago
Megadeath? That’s a little extreme considering that the death rate has been tapering for some time.
On the other hand, the administration and CDC have been running propaganda the entire year, so this is nothing new. Expecting truth out of either of them about this is a lost cause.
- iso1210 5y agoCurrent US deaths is 815k, and increasing steadilly. At this rate it will hit 1Mdeath by the end of April
- wackro 5y agoExcess deaths are over 1m. See https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-tracker https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...
- TeeMassive 5y agoThere is no way to know if those deaths were because or with Covid-19. Also correlation doesn't mean causation. Confinement caused a lot of hardships on people. Hell, fentanyl alone kills hundred of thousands each year, that's not even counting alcohol, other drugs, stress and solitude.
- codeddesign 5y agoThe hypocrisy is astounding. I don’t disagree with the numbers above, but at the same time you are absolutely right - yet downvoted and grayed out. Reminds me of Twitter and Reddit.
- TeeMassive 5y agoOn Reddit / Twitter I would be shadow banned and downvoted by bots and bought accounts. HN really is a sanctuary IMO.
- iso1210 5y agoYou shifted the goal post, you claimed that it's nowhere near one MegaDeath (1 million deaths) despite it being fairly close, then you pivoted to "those aren't really covid deaths".
- qbasic_forever 5y agoI remember when people said 240,000 American deaths were "a little extreme" when the IHME predicted it at the start of the pandemic. Wake up--we are far closer to an actual megadeath of Americans than not.