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Re:Nearly 8M Americans have fallen into poverty since summer by henrikschroder on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @02:11PM (#25447007)
Heart disease and cancer combined kill four times as many people every year, than what covid-19 has done this year.

About 10% of all the people who died in the US this year will have died from covid-19. Why are those 10% of deaths so much more terrible, so unimaginably horrible, that we're focusing exclusively on those, and completely ignoring the remaining 90% of deaths?

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Re:Nearly 8M Americans have fallen into poverty since summer by uoaei on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @02:17PM (#25447113)
You can't catch heart disease and cancer by standing for 10 minutes in the same room as someone who is afflicted by either of those.
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Re:Nearly 8M Americans have fallen into poverty since summer by t-writescode on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @02:16PM (#25447102)
Because it's an infectious disease spread through droplets in the air; because it's abnormal and therefore new and scary; and because it's more deadly than our other regular disease, the seasonal flu.
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