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It’s only manageable with heavy handed medical care and heavy handed containment to preserve care capacity. Have you been living under a rock or are you just trotting out talking points? Let me ask: how many deaths in the USA alone? How does it compare to KIAs in one of the many US wars? Please stop pretending you know what you’re talking about


Let's get some perspective on U.S. deaths in 2020 [1]:

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234

For the whole year 2020, heart disease was 2x bigger killer (700 thousand) than COVID (350 thousand). Cancer was bigger killer still than COVID. Stroke was smaller than COVID - I was wrong about that.

COVID gets scary in the few months when it gets out of control, like in January [2]. Those trips are a reason to use some extraordinary measures to prevent next ones.

[2] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/covid-19-continues...

Long term, COVID is a smaller killer than the other killers in the U.S.




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