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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by batmansmk on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:13PM (#22634341)
What would be the economic impact of 1 million dead? Twice WW2 in only 6 months?

Would the US democracy survive it? I don't think so.

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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by 0xffff2 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:23PM (#22634412)
~3 million people die every year in the US. Even if you assume no overlap (which doesn't seem realistic), I'm having a really hard time seeing how a 33% increase is the death of US democracy (if it's even still alive).
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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by romski on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:19AM (#22635415)
Dude take a breath, millions die in the US every year
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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by 0xffff2 on Friday March 20, 2020 @10:49AM (#22637942)
Did you reply to the wrong person?
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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by usaar333 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:29PM (#22634477)
Economically - if it all happened immediately, probably less than you think given it's mostly concentrated in an older age group past working age.

Second order effects would be huge though and you'd still take all sorts of economic and social hits.

I don't see why democracy would die. Spanish flu was far worse.

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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by jacob019 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:58PM (#22634727)
What exactly is the alternative to democracy? Are we suddenly going to become authoritarian? Are you suggesting that we will devolve into anarchy, branch off into warring clans of hunter-gatherer's, substance farmers, and roving gangs of bandits?
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