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US braces for 500K COVID deaths: Somber milestone nears as Fauci says Americans may still need masks into 2022 despite infections falling - as experts say cases could drop so low that vaccine complacency sets in
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 22 2021 | VALERIE EDWARDS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on 02/21/2021 11:45:21 PM PST by knighthawk

The United States stood Sunday at the brink of 500,000 COVID-19 deaths as Dr Anthony Fauci warned that Americans could be wearing masks into 2022 despite infections falling 77 per cent over the last six weeks.

A year into the pandemic, the running total of lives lost was about 498,000 โ€” roughly the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and just shy of the size of Atlanta.

The figure compiled by Johns Hopkins University surpasses the number of people who died in 2019 of chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, Alzheimer's, flu and pneumonia combined.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: braces; complacency; covidcoronavirus; fauci; mentalmaskerbation; somber
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To: knighthawk

Vaccine complacency? I’m there already.


21 posted on 02/22/2021 5:41:43 AM PST by wetgundog
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To: knighthawk

I would have been okay allowing everything to remain open at reduced capacity...social sustaining.
Only wearing a mask if you are in close proximity.

Otherwise..suggested precautions..and a warning would have been fine with me.


22 posted on 02/22/2021 5:48:01 AM PST by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: knighthawk

This CDC chart says deaths from all causes have remained almost the same.

https://i.imgur.com/gOR6ZAm.jpg


23 posted on 02/22/2021 5:57:03 AM PST by elpadre
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To: knighthawk

Yes, what the authorities are hating more than anything is to see the virus massively shrinking in actual real-time significance - cases, hospitalizations, deaths - with most people not having taken the vaccine.


24 posted on 02/22/2021 5:58:12 AM PST by Wuli
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To: knighthawk

The actual number is less than half that. I wonder when it will be considered “safe” to reveal that.


25 posted on 02/22/2021 6:00:05 AM PST by montag813 ("Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the Great")
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To: EEGator

i answered all your questions. you apparently canโ€™t read. have a nice day


26 posted on 02/22/2021 6:06:54 AM PST by Mom MD
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To: Mom MD; EEGator

Good answer, thanks for hanging in there for the medical staff. We lost a good friend, his widow is still struggling with the symptoms at home. Another friend’s son had it terribly and described in detail on Facebook what he as going through with the exhaustion, plummeting O2 sats, tachycardia, dyspnea when he tried doing simple things like talking 10 feet to toast a bagel.

EE, you might want to take some things seriously. And no, I don’t think the lockdowns are or were necessary, doing way more harm than good, and I highly question the masks.


27 posted on 02/22/2021 6:18:20 AM PST by prairiebreeze (Don't be afraid to see what you see. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: prairiebreeze

The long term effects of the lockdowns, and governmental power grabs, will be far more deleterious to life and our society than covid.


28 posted on 02/22/2021 7:02:52 AM PST by EEGator
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To: knighthawk

They really expect us to believe these ridiculous numbers.oh wait most of the sheeple probably do. ๐Ÿ˜


29 posted on 02/22/2021 7:02:54 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: RomanSoldier19

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30 posted on 02/22/2021 7:03:28 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: upnspace

Yep.
Ivermectin (mainly) and HCQ, both using zinc and antibiotics.
Ivermectin regimen is what we should be using here.


31 posted on 02/22/2021 10:06:05 AM PST by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: knighthawk

The actual numbers are probably a third of that or less. Tell a big enough lie often enough and it will be believed.


32 posted on 02/22/2021 10:44:19 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: EEGator

I don’t necessarily disagree and we likely won’t ever know the full extent of the bad effects of lockdown.


33 posted on 02/22/2021 10:51:51 AM PST by prairiebreeze (Don't be afraid to see what you see. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: Mom MD
My comment was to address the opinion around here that covid is a fraud and people donโ€™t really die of it. They do.

Yes, some do. But two thirds or more are being falsely recorded as COVID deaths, people dying WITH it (not OF it), of illnesses that would have killed them anyway.

Any are too many, but this crisis is not going to go to waste! Thanks, Communist China and Democrat party USA.

34 posted on 02/22/2021 10:52:44 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed

the number of people that die with not of covid is not 2/3. If you have diabetes or hypertension and died of covid you died of the covid and with diabetes or hypertension, not the other way around


35 posted on 02/22/2021 11:16:27 AM PST by Mom MD
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To: Mom MD

Do you think the stats are exaggerated at all? Honest question and I’m not looking for a fight.

My 75 year old uncle had terminal liver cancer. He had stopped all treatment and was in hospice. He caught Covid (presumably from his wife who’s a nurse back in the early days of the pandemic). The counted his cause of death as Covid.

My great uncle, 94, was in a nursing home. He was in renal failure and refusing dialysis. He also caught Covid and died with many other from the same facility. They called his cause of death Covid too.

Both very sad events. My father, who loved both men very much, talks about them dying of Covid all the time. I will remind him sometimes that they were both terminal already, that Covid was just the final straw. Yup it sucks.

I just wonder how many of the 500,000 deaths so far are like this. 10%? 20%?

What’s your opinion? And thank you very much for your medical service. We have many nurses in the family and they are getting slammed, especially my pals in the ICUs.


36 posted on 02/22/2021 11:38:18 AM PST by strider44
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To: strider44

certainly there are some that were dying anyway for whom covid happened to be the terminal event. This seems to be a relatively small number but no way to absolutely know how many. The other problem is where to draw the line? a life expectancy if 2 weeks or less? a month or less? it becomes very difficult to sort out. I will say the vast majority of patients I have cared for do not fall into this category. I am sorry for your losses made more difficult i am sure by the isolation and distancing rules.


37 posted on 02/22/2021 12:09:19 PM PST by Mom MD
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To: Mom MD

Thank you. Yes the last day when we were all having to talk to my uncle with the nurses holding the phone on speaker was tough. We had to wait months for the funerals. Many people going through the same thing.


38 posted on 02/22/2021 12:37:35 PM PST by strider44
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To: Mom MD

What IS the truth about Covid deaths? Grieving relatives along with MPs and top medics demand inquiry as families reveal loved ones have been wrongly certified as virus victims

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3938317/posts


39 posted on 02/28/2021 1:14:50 AM PST by Rennes Templar (Heaven has a wall and gates. Hell has open borders.)
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To: Mom MD

Polyethylene glcol as a cause of anaphylaxis [re ‘vaccines’]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3938311/posts


40 posted on 02/28/2021 1:29:05 AM PST by Rennes Templar (Heaven has a wall and gates. Hell has open borders.)
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