Joe Biden on COVID-19 deaths reaching 100,000 in the USA

[LuFins Dad]

100,000! Wow! Per Capita, we’re over halfway to the total from the Hong Kong Flu of 68-69!

[Loki]

Ok. His campaign is beginning. Demonstrating empathy, sobriety and that he will do a better job dealing with crisis...that’s my take of what he is trying to do. You can’t campaign without discussing it, the question is whether or not this is one of the best big three differentiation strategies.

[Copper]

@LuFins-Dad said in Joe Biden on COVID-19 deaths reaching 100,000 in the USA:

100,000! Wow! Per Capita, we’re over halfway to the total from the Hong Kong Flu of 68-69!

And that is when the US population growth flat-lined.


https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/

[jon-nyc]

@LuFins-Dad said in Joe Biden on COVID-19 deaths reaching 100,000 in the USA:

100,000! Wow! Per Capita, we’re over halfway to the total from the Hong Kong Flu of 68-69!

Already?? Even with a lockdown in just 2.5 months we got halfway to where they got in two years? Wow.

[Aqua Letifer]

Flu

[Horace]

@LuFins-Dad said in Joe Biden on COVID-19 deaths reaching 100,000 in the USA:

100,000! Wow! Per Capita, we’re over halfway to the total from the Hong Kong Flu of 68-69!

Ages and co-morbidities or it didn't happen.

[Mik]

@Loki said in Joe Biden on COVID-19 deaths reaching 100,000 in the USA:

Ok. His campaign is beginning. Demonstrating empathy, sobriety and that he will do a better job dealing with crisis...that’s my take of what he is trying to do. You can’t campaign without discussing it, the question is whether or not this is one of the best big three differentiation strategies.

Agree. Smart move.

[Aqua Letifer]

I dunno about that. It was so obviously a political move I've made sure not to listen to it.

[Jolly]

You're not alone. I suspect 90% of the country paid no attention.

[Mik]

I only heard about it here.

Still think it is smart and presidential on his part, but I did not know it happened.

If a tree falls in a forest...

[89th]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Joe Biden on COVID-19 deaths reaching 100,000 in the USA:

I dunno about that. It was so obviously a political move I've made sure not to listen to it.

Same. From the headline/screenshot alone you could tell it was just him reading or reciting from a script. That's one reason Trump is fun, you never know what he's going to say!! LOL

[Copper]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Joe Biden on COVID-19 deaths reaching 100,000 in the USA:

I dunno about that. It was so obviously a political move I've made sure not to listen to it.

Yup

[Axtremus]

@89th said in Joe Biden on COVID-19 deaths reaching 100,000 in the USA:

That's one reason Trump is fun, you never know what he's going to say!! LOL

Ah, there was a time when people believed that uncertainty is bad.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Joe Biden on COVID-19 deaths reaching 100,000 in the USA:

@LuFins-Dad said in Joe Biden on COVID-19 deaths reaching 100,000 in the USA:

100,000! Wow! Per Capita, we’re over halfway to the total from the Hong Kong Flu of 68-69!

Already?? Even with a lockdown in just 2.5 months we got halfway to where they got in two years? Wow.

In all fairness, most of the deaths were over 6 months (December 68 - May 69) so the rate isn't that much higher for COVID-19. Also, while there was no lockdown, the population density was about 40% less back then, the number of people in the workforce was less than half what it is now with a much higher percentage of mothers staying at home, fewer people rode subways or planes, all of these things that we believe helped spread this pandemic, the people of 1968 were a little more naturally insulated from...And their death toll per capita was still not that different than COVID-19. Yet, nobody that I've spoken with that was alive then really recall it as being considered all that important. Hell, it doesn't even make the Wikipedia list of important events in the US for that year. I find that astounding.

[taiwan_girl]

Mr. Biden put out a tweet contrasting tweets last October 25, 2019 between him and President Trump:

Mr. Biden

President Trump from the same day

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[jon-nyc]

@LuFins-Dad said in Joe Biden on COVID-19 deaths reaching 100,000 in the USA:

In all fairness, most of the deaths were over 6 months (December 68 - May 69) so the rate isn't that much higher for COVID-19. Also, while there was no lockdown, the population density was about 40% less back then, the number of people in the workforce was less than half what it is now with a much higher percentage of mothers staying at home, fewer people rode subways or planes, all of these things that we believe helped spread this pandemic, the people of 1968 were a little more naturally insulated from...And their death toll per capita was still not that different than COVID-19. Yet, nobody that I've spoken with that was alive then really recall it as being considered all that important. Hell, it doesn't even make the Wikipedia list of important events in the US for that year. I find that astounding.

If we had a 6 month flu season that took 100k lives using excess death calculation and in a non-locked down environment, most of us would shrug it off too. Look how many people shrug this off despite being so much worse.