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315,000 is 0.1% of the US Population (Original Post) MineralMan Apr 2020 OP
K&R, This guys was 90% right about CV19 number for today 2 weeks ago uponit7771 Apr 2020 #1
Won't happen. TwilightZone Apr 2020 #2
Exactly Andy823 Apr 2020 #5
4,000 was good enough to Impeach. He's handled this poorly, causing much more anxiety, grief, Hoyt Apr 2020 #3
I don't think the Reeps care how many people die. ananda Apr 2020 #4
The number that bothers me Miguelito Loveless Apr 2020 #6
Your Deaths Number ProfessorGAC Apr 2020 #7
Is there a point to your silly high number? onenote Apr 2020 #8
The point is that's 1% of the US population. MineralMan Apr 2020 #9

TwilightZone

(25,457 posts)
2. Won't happen.
Tue Apr 7, 2020, 03:59 PM
Apr 2020

The Republicans can't and won't acknowledge that Trump is responsible for the delays and the tepid response, because they're complicit in them. That means there's zero chance they would remove him from office. They'll just try to shift blame to everyone else, as they already are.

Andy823

(11,495 posts)
5. Exactly
Tue Apr 7, 2020, 04:03 PM
Apr 2020

We all know what "should" be done, but those who have the only power to do so, won't do it.

Republicans in D.C. are going to go down with him, because they are afraid to remove him from office. Sadly many will die because republicans have put trump over country!

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
3. 4,000 was good enough to Impeach. He's handled this poorly, causing much more anxiety, grief,
Tue Apr 7, 2020, 03:59 PM
Apr 2020

and likely death than necessary.

Miguelito Loveless

(4,460 posts)
6. The number that bothers me
Tue Apr 7, 2020, 04:41 PM
Apr 2020

is "resolved cases". Cases resolve one of two way: You live or you die.

Right now the numbers are:

Lived: 21,561
Died: 12,561

That's a scary %.

Admittedly, the number is skewed in that we have done a fraction of the testing we needed to do, but that was Trump's and his followers choice. They want to hide the size of the pandemic.

At the same time, people dying without a positive diagnosis are also not being counted.

ProfessorGAC

(64,990 posts)
7. Your Deaths Number
Tue Apr 7, 2020, 04:44 PM
Apr 2020

Is now higher than from H1N1 and those deaths took 15 MONTHS.
We're 7 or 8 WEEKS from the first death.
H1N1 averaged 800/month. This is averaging 1,500-1,800/WEEK!
But, don't worry, the cases will go from 15 to zero in no time!

onenote

(42,690 posts)
8. Is there a point to your silly high number?
Tue Apr 7, 2020, 05:33 PM
Apr 2020

Show me someone with reliable credentials who believes there will be 3.15 million deaths in the US by November -- that's over 14000 deaths a day every day between now and election day. It's a silly and pointless number.

Is 315,000 by election day possible? I wouldn't completely rule it out, but the numbers from Europe suggest that the peak won't be as high and as sustained as would have to be the case to reach such a number.

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