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Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by libraryatnight on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:55AM (#25290093)
My moms co-worker got it. Now 2 of his family is dead after he spread it. One of those was a 24 year old athlete. Can we PLEASE stop adding to noise on the internet with our opinions and pet projects?

Young, healthy, fit people are getting this and dying. Your hypothesis may be accurate overall, I do not know, but frankly it's noise nobody needs.

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Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by irq11 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:07AM (#25290256)
Nationwide in the US in 2020, 7,151 people under the age of 45 have died after Covid diagnosis. Under the age of 25, only 528 people have died.

During the same time period, over 50,000 people under age 25 have died from all causes:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

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Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by 0xffff2 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:36AM (#25290698)
The odds that I die after getting hit by a bus are presumably infinitesimal, yet I still don't make a habit of hanging out in traffic.
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Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by irq11 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @07:57AM (#25314199)
The odds that you die after getting hit by a bus are presumably quite high.
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Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by VLM on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:04AM (#25290221)
How can we fight a widespread infection using emotional anecdotes instead of statistics?
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Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by jawarner on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:08AM (#25290274)
An emotional anecdote conveys the personal impact of an issue. It helps with empathy, something OP is not demonstrating. Statistics do back that it is possible for young people to die of COVID, albeit less likely than older people.
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Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by hnrodey on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:43AM (#25290830)
I have a significant amount empathy which is why I have invested personal time and actual dollars in building this site and engaging in professional discussions.

My empathy is primarily towards the people who have worked hard for what they have only to have it ripped away because of arbitrary government decisions.

Regardless, the people who have passed directly from and because of this disease is a tragic story in the history of our country.

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