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Originally Posted by Swoop
The title of the post is Putting the Coronavirus into perspective. Let’s do that. Corona will be listed as the cause of death of of fewer than 300,000 Americans in 2020. Most of those, according to the CDC had one or more pre existing condition. In fact, to date, only 15,000 Covid deaths did not list another underlying condition. Every year over 600,000 Americans die from cancer. I can post heart wrenching story after heart wrenching story about someone’s battle with cancer. Would that help put “Cancer into perspective”?
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Per the CDC, over 7,000,000 people die in the US each year. Never mentioned in the media and everyone just moves on oblivious to that fact. Unfortunately, the media on a daily basis keeps focusing on the numbers that will get them the most clicks. Funny you don’t hear about the percentage of deaths from COVID as the reason is the rate is substantially lower than in the late winter early spring. And to post something from Facebook, well......