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Re:I Miss My Bar by bingohbangoh on Friday February 19, 2021 @05:26PM (#26198828)
> Show me the data.

What data am I gonna show you? the only available data says "they defeated it" and it comes from the state government.

>We are basically a year into this with 500K dead and counting. How many citizens need to die before people stop feeling the need to create throwaway accounts to announce that this whole thing is overblown.

Like I said, I literally only know one soul who got this. They recovered in two days. My Aunt & Uncle are emergency room nurses and say that it's overblown _now_ (last April? was definitely bad).

I also don't know anybody who dies from the seasonal flu that claims a lot of people too.

Re:I Miss My Bar by greedo on Friday February 19, 2021 @07:59PM (#26200259)
"overblown_now" but April was bad? In April we were seeing roughly 2K deaths per day. The average the last month has been over 3K. Or perhaps you live in Taiwan, or NZ where they actually handled COVID properly. But in the US, it's been a shitstorm.
Re:I Miss My Bar by bingohbangoh on Friday February 19, 2021 @08:48PM (#26200644)
I'm in NYC.

I literally don't know anybody. I'm not being facetious, though I'm incredibly frustrated watching my city melt away, but I just haven't seen it. I would've expected bodies on the sidewalk given how stringent everything has been.