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To: trebb
“ If you can read and comprehend what you read, you would realize you're tirade is nothing but emotional crap and devoid of reality.“

I can read and comprehend far better than you I’m afraid. As of today, the much-hyped and overinflated death toll is 80,000 in America. As I posted earlier in this same thread every year the flu kills tens of thousands per year just in America and hundreds of thousands globally every year.

“Overall, the CDC estimates that 12,000 and 61,000 deaths annually since 2010 can be blamed on the flu. Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the flu kills 290,000 to 650,000 people per year. ”

source: https://www.health.com/condition/cold-flu-sinus/how-many-people-die-of-the-flu-every-year

Furthermore, in 2017 the flu killed 80,000 Americans:

“Sept. 27, 2018 — Influenza was deadlier last season than it has been for at least four decades, killing 80,000 Americans. So said the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Tuesday in an interview with the Associated Press.”

source: https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20180927/80000-americans-died-from-flu-last-year

I hope you noticed that I responded to your diatribe with facts while you just insulted me without specifying facts.

BOOM! That just happened!

138 posted on 05/12/2020 1:04:20 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ("Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither.")
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To: wildcard_redneck
I agree -we have just passed the death rate for a very bad Flu year...and it looks like 100K+ is likely...and that's with all the mitigation.

Yes, you used factual flu death rates, but now that we did all the shutting down/locking down/mitigation, there's no longer a valid way to make the comparison.

Could there have been 2 million+ deaths from this bug - I doubt it.

Could there have been multiples of what we're seeing - very possible but, once again, we'll never know.

PS - You never really did any actual responding to any of the previous comments - you originally slammed a guy for agreeing with my comments and told him to go to DU (Where you probably would fit in better), the last questions I had were about your actual claim/inferred claim about protesting...you diverted nicely...

I also went back to check the thread of our "discussion" and noticed you telling someone else that you "might not be the most conservative one here, but your long-term squatting means they have to put up with you"...seems like I ain't the only one that thinks you'd fare better on a less conservative site.

BOOM! (You seemed oh so proud of yourself, but that's how a "BOOM!" is done)

161 posted on 05/13/2020 3:37:44 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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