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Old 11-19-2020, 08:21 PM   #51
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Originally Posted by gravy boat View Post
I do see that the CDC website indicates 249,670 deaths attributed to COVID in the US to date. I also see 11,465,722 total cases in the US to date. And there are 328.2 million people currently living in the US. Which means only 0.07% of the US population will die from COVID.
This is a bizarre and disgusting use of math, and has nothing to do with the local nature of this thread.

250K is like 5X the number of Americans killed in Vietnam, or 60X the number killed on 9/11. But maybe you shrug at these too?
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