US has a shitload of cases

[jon-nyc]

Yes we did.

@jon-nyc said in US has a shitload of cases:

632,878 4.7% daily increase. Deaths 27,850 9.5% daily increase.
658,263 4% increase. Deaths 32,186 up 15.6%
692,169 5.2% increase. Deaths 32,232 up 0.14% increase.
726,645 5% increase. Deaths 37,938 up 17.7%
755,533 4% increase. Deaths 40,461 up 6.7%
820,104. 4.2% increase. Deaths 44,228 up 4.6%
846,982 3.3% increase. Deaths 46,560 up 5.3%
890,524, 2.5% increase. Deaths 51,017 up up 4.7%.
963,168 4% increase. Deaths 54,530 up 3.4%.

1,010,717. 2.4% increase. Deaths 58,365 up 3.5%

[Aqua Letifer]

We lost more people to COVID-19 in the past 3 months than we did soldiers during the entire Vietnam War.

WWII I believe is the next benchmark. I think we have a very decent chance of meeting it.

[Horace]

I listened to a presentation recently from an academic/scientist who wants everybody to take the virus way more seriously. He used the comparison with war deaths first as an appeal to our humanity, and then took it further to try to appeal to the "but the economy!" folk by assuming that the economic damage of war deaths is the same as the economic damage of virus deaths, on a death for death basis, and projecting economic numbers based on that. This was a very smart guy and I think there is zero chance he doesn't know the difference, economically or otherwise, between a soldier getting cut down in his 20s and an older person with co-morbidities dying of a virus. But he never mentioned that difference.

[mark]

@Aqua-Letifer said in US has a shitload of cases:

We lost more people to COVID-19 in the past 3 months than we did soldiers during the entire Vietnam War.

WWII I believe is the next benchmark. I think we have a very decent chance of meeting it.

[Klaus]

@Aqua-Letifer said in US has a shitload of cases:

We lost more people to COVID-19 in the past 3 months than we did soldiers during the entire Vietnam War.

WWII I believe is the next benchmark. I think we have a very decent chance of meeting it.

Hm, let's see. We lost 6,000 to COVID-19. Casualties due to WW2: 6,000,000. Factor of 1,000.

[jon-nyc]

Yeah but you passed your Vietnam total on March 9th.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Horace said in US has a shitload of cases:

I think there is zero chance he doesn't know the difference, economically or otherwise, between a soldier getting cut down in his 20s and an older person with co-morbidities dying of a virus. But he never mentioned that difference.

I absolutely refuse to acknowledge the difference. Chalk it up to my nonexistent woke-liberal mentality if you want, I don't give a shit. I categorically deny that a 20-year-old dying is more tragic than a 60-year-old dying. I personally find either scenario equally tragic in very different ways. Believe what you want, but no I do not have to agree with you, and no I do not care what conclusions you draw from me siding with the Guy You Think You Know Better Than.

[Copper]

@Aqua-Letifer said in US has a shitload of cases:

@Horace said in US has a shitload of cases:

I think there is zero chance he doesn't know the difference, economically or otherwise, between a soldier getting cut down in his 20s and an older person with co-morbidities dying of a virus. But he never mentioned that difference.

I absolutely refuse to acknowledge the difference. Chalk it up to my nonexistent woke-liberal mentality if you want, I don't give a shit. I categorically deny that a 20-year-old dying is more tragic than a 60-year-old dying. I personally find either scenario equally tragic in very different ways. Believe what you want, but no I do not have to agree with you, and no I do not care what conclusions you draw from me siding with the Guy You Think You Know Better Than.

So finally you agree that this is a game of a death is a death.

And until covid-19 (probably) passed the 2019 flu last week the winner was 2019 flu.

More deaths is worse.

[Doctor Phibes]

Lots and lots of civilians, including older people, die in wars. Not Americans, maybe, since you haven't had a major war on your mainland since the civil war, but a shit ton of other folk have. Typically, half the deaths are civilian.

On the other hand, I think comparing Covid-19 to WW2 or Vietnam is ridiculous. Three million non-Americans died in Vietnam.

[Horace]

@Aqua-Letifer said in US has a shitload of cases:

@Horace said in US has a shitload of cases:

I think there is zero chance he doesn't know the difference, economically or otherwise, between a soldier getting cut down in his 20s and an older person with co-morbidities dying of a virus. But he never mentioned that difference.

I absolutely refuse to acknowledge the difference. Chalk it up to my nonexistent woke-liberal mentality if you want, I don't give a shit. I categorically deny that a 20-year-old dying is more tragic than a 60-year-old dying. I personally find either scenario equally tragic in very different ways. Believe what you want, but no I do not have to agree with you, and no I do not care what conclusions you draw from me siding with the Guy You Think You Know Better Than.

I don't think I know better than him. He is clearly way beyond me when it comes to pretty much everything. I only noticed that he, like most people who are motivated to engage in public discussions about covid, isn't going to spend his time doing so with perfect intellectual honesty. If he's motivated enough to engage in the discussion then he's motivated enough to cut some corners so his message is more persuasive. After all, I'm sure he believes he'll save lives. Who wouldn't cut some corners for that?

[jon-nyc]

@jon-nyc said in US has a shitload of cases:

632,878 4.7% daily increase. Deaths 27,850 9.5% daily increase.
658,263 4% increase. Deaths 32,186 up 15.6%
692,169 5.2% increase. Deaths 32,232 up 0.14% increase.
726,645 5% increase. Deaths 37,938 up 17.7%
755,533 4% increase. Deaths 40,461 up 6.7%
820,104. 4.2% increase. Deaths 44,228 up 4.6%
846,982 3.3% increase. Deaths 46,560 up 5.3%
890,524, 2.5% increase. Deaths 51,017 up up 4.7%.
963,168 4% increase. Deaths 54,530 up 3.4%.
1,010,717. 2.4% increase. Deaths 58,365 up 3.5%

1,036,652 2.6% increase. Deaths 60,475 up 3.6%

[jon-nyc]

@jon-nyc said in US has a shitload of cases:

658,263 4% increase. Deaths 32,186 up 15.6%
692,169 5.2% increase. Deaths 32,232 up 0.14% increase.
726,645 5% increase. Deaths 37,938 up 17.7%
755,533 4% increase. Deaths 40,461 up 6.7%
820,104. 4.2% increase. Deaths 44,228 up 4.6%
846,982 3.3% increase. Deaths 46,560 up 5.3%
890,524, 2.5% increase. Deaths 51,017 up up 4.7%.
963,168 4% increase. Deaths 54,530 up 3.4%.
1,010,717. 2.4% increase. Deaths 58,365 up 3.5%
1,036,652 2.6% increase. Deaths 60,475 up 3.6%

1,067,061 2.9% increase. Deaths 62,870 up 4.0%

[Mik]

Let's just call it roughly 2,400 a day. I think that's worth considering.

[89th]

Basically a 9/11 death toll per day.

[jon-nyc]

@jon-nyc said in US has a shitload of cases:

658,263 4% increase. Deaths 32,186 up 15.6%
692,169 5.2% increase. Deaths 32,232 up 0.14% increase.
726,645 5% increase. Deaths 37,938 up 17.7%
755,533 4% increase. Deaths 40,461 up 6.7%
820,104. 4.2% increase. Deaths 44,228 up 4.6%
846,982 3.3% increase. Deaths 46,560 up 5.3%
890,524, 2.5% increase. Deaths 51,017 up up 4.7%.
963,168 4% increase. Deaths 54,530 up 3.4%.
1,010,717. 2.4% increase. Deaths 58,365 up 3.5%
1,036,652 2.6% increase. Deaths 60,475 up 3.6%
1,067,061 2.9% increase. Deaths 62,870 up 4.0%

1,098,565, up up 3.0%. Deaths 64,577 up 2.7%.

[jon-nyc]

@jon-nyc said in US has a shitload of cases:

692,169 5.2% increase. Deaths 32,232 up 0.14% increase.
726,645 5% increase. Deaths 37,938 up 17.7%
755,533 4% increase. Deaths 40,461 up 6.7%
820,104. 4.2% increase. Deaths 44,228 up 4.6%
846,982 3.3% increase. Deaths 46,560 up 5.3%
890,524, 2.5% increase. Deaths 51,017 up up 4.7%.
963,168 4% increase. Deaths 54,530 up 3.4%.
1,010,717. 2.4% increase. Deaths 58,365 up 3.5%
1,036,652 2.6% increase. Deaths 60,475 up 3.6%
1,067,061 2.9% increase. Deaths 62,870 up 4.0%
1,098,565, up 3.0%. Deaths 64,577 up 2.7%.

1,154,621, up 2.5%. Deaths 67,451 up 2.2%.

[jon-nyc]

@jon-nyc said in US has a shitload of cases:

692,169 5.2% increase. Deaths 32,232 up 0.14% increase.
726,645 5% increase. Deaths 37,938 up 17.7%
755,533 4% increase. Deaths 40,461 up 6.7%
820,104. 4.2% increase. Deaths 44,228 up 4.6%
846,982 3.3% increase. Deaths 46,560 up 5.3%
890,524, 2.5% increase. Deaths 51,017 up up 4.7%.
963,168 4% increase. Deaths 54,530 up 3.4%.
1,010,717. 2.4% increase. Deaths 58,365 up 3.5%
1,036,652 2.6% increase. Deaths 60,475 up 3.6%
1,067,061 2.9% increase. Deaths 62,870 up 4.0%
1,098,565, up 3.0%. Deaths 64,577 up 2.7%.
1,154,621, up 2.5%. Deaths 67,451 up 2.2%.

1,177,784 up 2.0%. Deaths 68,442 up 1.5%.

[jon-nyc]

@jon-nyc said in US has a shitload of cases:

692,169 5.2% increase. Deaths 32,232 up 0.14% increase.
726,645 5% increase. Deaths 37,938 up 17.7%
755,533 4% increase. Deaths 40,461 up 6.7%
820,104. 4.2% increase. Deaths 44,228 up 4.6%
846,982 3.3% increase. Deaths 46,560 up 5.3%
890,524, 2.5% increase. Deaths 51,017 up up 4.7%.
963,168 4% increase. Deaths 54,530 up 3.4%.
1,010,717. 2.4% increase. Deaths 58,365 up 3.5%
1,036,652 2.6% increase. Deaths 60,475 up 3.6%
1,067,061 2.9% increase. Deaths 62,870 up 4.0%
1,098,565, up 3.0%. Deaths 64,577 up 2.7%.
1,154,621, up 2.5%. Deaths 67,451 up 2.2%.
1,177,784 up 2.0%. Deaths 68,442 up 1.5%.

1,201,337 up 2.0%. Deaths 70,847 up 3.5%

[89th]

Again, we’re basically seeing a 9/11 death toll per day... from something that was somewhat more preventable (albeit not entirely) than it ended up being.

[George K]

@89th said in US has a shitload of cases:

somewhat more preventable (albeit not entirely)

"Preventatble"

By whom?

When?

How?

Just curious on your thoughts.