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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:00PM (#22634248)
> The USA never suffered casualties of 1+mil ever.

Proportionately speaking, that estimate is on par with the amount of American deaths per total population during WW2 and something like 1/7 the American deaths per total population during the civil war.

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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by UncleEntity on Friday March 20, 2020 @12:09AM (#22634781)
> Proportionately speaking, that estimate is on par with the amount of American deaths per total population during WW2 and something like 1/7 the American deaths per total population during the civil war.

You think if they had the choice they would have rather sat at home watching netflix?

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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Friday March 20, 2020 @12:14AM (#22634805)
In the civil war people would totally picnic on the hill next to the big fight.
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