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Re:Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills by Fjolsvith on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:51PM (#22983929)
> If we get tens to hundreds of thousands of people dying in the span of a few weeks, how do you think that will affect the economy?

The suicide rate this year is greater than the COVID death rate.

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Re:Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills by KarlKemp on Monday April 27, 2020 @03:23AM (#22993672)
Nope. Suicides per year (US): 45,000. COVID deaths today: 50,000.
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