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Originally Posted by Maruzo
Logically, that means America is doomed to fail this fight against Covid.
Or any other similar type of viruses that is sure to come in the future. Given the drastically increasing global population density and the scarcity of resources.
It's funny, we survived the threat of nuclear weapons and the cold war, only to be defeated by the smallest of an adversary, an insignificant strain of molecular proteins.
The elephant who ignored the mouse on its feet.
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As EOD posted, we aren't doing
terribly when it comes right down to it. The numbers could be better of course if everyone followed guidelines, but that's not a realistic expectation in a free society.
I just hope that the ones being cavalier are the ones being affected the greatest. On the bright side, maybe the US population's IQ point average will go up a few ticks after the smoke clears.
People die all the time for all sorts of reasons and
when we hit 250,000 deaths it will still be only .08% of the total population. That will probably take over a year from the time this started so we are not losing huge swathes of the population. Here are the CDC's 2017 stats for leading causes of death for context:
Heart disease: 647,457
Cancer: 599,108
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 146,383
Alzheimer’s disease: 121,404
Diabetes: 83,564
Influenza and pneumonia: 55,672
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,633
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,173
All of those together are less than 1% (0.63%) of the total population. US society is in greater peril of failing from many other causes before covid-19. Poor parenting and education being chief among them in my book.