You can state your opinions and your likes and dislikes, on Free Republic... so can I... and you are nuts if you think all of those who are spouting about how bad it’s gonna’ be and how long it will be... I don’t buy it.
I just looked up how many die normally in the US and the quote is 109 per day. When they give their figures each day, do they count only the ones who die from the virus? No, they just have a number .. and it is making a statement with numbers and for what reason do they not specify it is for all deaths.. or maybe they do and I missed it. But you know in an argument, if you want it to be a high number, you use it like they do. If you want a lower number for your reasons, you would split the deaths ONLY from the virus.
it’s playing with the numbers to make a point. to win your cause.. and I don’t trust any of them.. plain and simple. There are a few... there were more than a few but the capitulated.. so goes it in Washington.
I’ve lived in quite a few bad times in this country and I’ve never seen the streets emptied and everything closed. for what reason is it that way now...to stop the virus.. and what about the ones prior to this one.... it just does not make sense to me..
We have a President the other side hates.. and we have an election coming up in a few months... and “never let a pandemic go to waste...”
One state shut everything up till the day after the Republican convention... think it was VA.. not sure .. now, isn’t that convenient..
“I just looked up how many die normally in the US and the quote is 109 per day.”
The daily average body count is around 6,500 to 7,000 in the US from all causes.
109 is a middlin’ flu day for in-season flu deaths.
Over 666 (!) died of CCP-19 yesterday. Six flu days stacked on top of each other. Been trending up for a week.
Is it going to take a 7,000 death day to wake people up?
“One state shut everything up till the day after the Republican convention... think it was VA.. not sure .. now, isn’t that convenient.”
President Trump has already secured the nomination. All the challengers have dropped out, not that any were ever a threat. Looks like everybody in VA will have time to watch the Republican Convention on TV.
“I’ve lived in quite a few bad times in this country and I’ve never seen the streets emptied and everything closed. for what reason is it that way now...to stop the virus.. and what about the ones prior to this one.... it just does not make sense to me..”
Well, first, t’s NOT the flu. But for comparison purposes, the last pandemic, in 2009: In the first month following the first death from H1N1 in the US, 10-15 people died from H1N1 in the US. In the first month following the first death from CCP-19 in the US, about 3,400 people died from CCP-19 in the US.
And people are still dying from the flu, too, as well as all the regular causes.
So, there you have it.