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Originally Posted by DaFace
Then put your numbers into context. You keep throwing out numbers that seem small, but my point is that ALL of these kinds of numbers seem small. Without context, they're meaningless.
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The truth to the matter is by the time this is contained there will be ~200K people roughly 78 years old who will not be around any longer unfortunately. These are mainly people who wouldn't have been around in 3-5 years anyway given the average age of death in the US. Its inarguable there will be a DROP in deaths in the US in the next 3-5 years.
And since Donger brought up the Spanish Flu that killed .65% of the US.
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Most influenza outbreaks disproportionately kill the very young and the very old, with a higher survival rate for those in between, but the Spanish flu pandemic resulted in a higher than expected mortality rate for young adults.[5] Scientists offer several possible explanations for the high mortality rate of the 1918 influenza pandemic. Some analyses have shown the virus to be particularly deadly because it triggers a cytokine storm, which ravages the stronger immune system of young adults.[6]
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If people do not understand the significant difference then I don't know what else to say.
Its not being cruel or insensitive its just the facts. Death sucks, most of these people were at the end of their life cycle.
We need to worry about the future.