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Re:‘I’m not an epidemiologist but’: The rise of the corona i... by 11235813213455 on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @05:55PM (#22621658)
The number of death from air pollution alone is much higher (4.6m/year https://www.google.com/search?q=number+of+death+from+polluti...) than from those viruses

With quarantines and traffic, activity, consumption slowdown, the air quality is getting much better, did we just discover the solution for global warming indirectly? which is a much more important problem than those human viruses by the way

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Re:‘I’m not an epidemiologist but’: The rise of the corona i... by beaunative on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:49PM (#22634154)
Hey. 4.6m over the course of a year is not much compare to this. 50-150m lives could be lost in a matter of a few months if this virus get out of control.
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