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Re:Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017) by optimiz3 on Friday May 29, 2020 @01:56PM (#23353255)
> why haven't we been in lockdown every year until this deadly scourge has been exterminated?

Probably because 700k/year is globally, while the US alone has suffered 100k deaths in 3 months.

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Re:Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017) by jakeogh on Friday May 29, 2020 @02:43PM (#23353895)
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/health_policy/influenza-and-pn...
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Re:Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017) by clairity on Friday May 29, 2020 @01:57PM (#23353279)
currently ~350K global deaths for covid, in 6 months, since december.
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Re:Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017) by thawaway1837 on Friday May 29, 2020 @02:10PM (#23353472)
In about 3 months. For a disease that was growing exponentially before action was taken and even now is only just stopped growing in countries where action was taken.

And no mosquito outbreak has caused entire hospital systems to collapse in various parts of the world.

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