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Heartstrings

(7,349 posts) Sun Dec 13, 2020, 07:56 PM Dec 2020

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How can a disease with 1% mortality shut down the United States? Facts for the trump virus deniers (Original Post) Heartstrings Dec 2020 OP

What's 1% mortality? OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2020 #1

Exactly.... Heartstrings Dec 2020 #2

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1. What's 1% mortality?

Sun Dec 13, 2020, 08:12 PM

Dec 2020

35MM people
120MM with the virus doing unknown damage to their health
the end of our healthcare system as we know it.

That's what 1% mortality is.

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2. Exactly....

Sun Dec 13, 2020, 09:52 PM

Dec 2020

The what the deniers don’t get. But math isn’t their strong suit....neither is compasssion, empathy and consideration for their fellow Americans.