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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by eecc on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @04:29PM (#28699492)
It’s only manageable with heavy handed medical care and heavy handed containment to preserve care capacity. Have you been living under a rock or are you just trotting out talking points? Let me ask: how many deaths in the USA alone? How does it compare to KIAs in one of the many US wars? Please stop pretending you know what you’re talking about
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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by effie on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @06:14PM (#28700675)
Let's get some perspective on U.S. deaths in 2020 [1]:

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234

For the whole year 2020, heart disease was 2x bigger killer (700 thousand) than COVID (350 thousand). Cancer was bigger killer still than COVID. Stroke was smaller than COVID - I was wrong about that.

COVID gets scary in the few months when it gets out of control, like in January [2]. Those trips are a reason to use some extraordinary measures to prevent next ones.

[2] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/covid-19-continues...

Long term, COVID is a smaller killer than the other killers in the U.S.

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