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Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by thomaslord on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:37PM (#23227361)
Deaths reported as COVID-19 in the US so far: 90,263

Deaths due to flu during the 2018-2019 flu season: 34,157

Deaths due to flu during the 2017-2018 flu season: 61,000

So with a particularly deadly flu season in 2017-2018, COVID-19 has already killed nearly as many people as 2 flu seasons combined.

There are also a lot of deaths that are likely caused by COVID-19 but haven't been attributed properly, for any number of reasons including not wanting to waste tests on people who are already dead. You can find a nice graphic here that expresses this phenomenon nicely using seasonal averages: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/04/27/cov...

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Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by JoeAltmaier on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:30PM (#23227975)
The stages of grief start with denial. Not gotten very far, have we?
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Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by zeku on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:27PM (#23227942)
I don't understand why people are believing this literal fake news, you can look at your state's official stats to see it's not true...
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Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by mcguire on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:13PM (#23227081)
You might want to check your sources on that.
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Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by throwaway55554 on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:18PM (#23227140)
Citation?
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