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berni_mccoy

(23,018 posts) Fri Apr 10, 2020, 10:48 PM Apr 2020

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U.S.... Half A Million. 18 thousand dead.

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U.S.... Half A Million. 18 thousand dead. (Original Post) berni_mccoy Apr 2020 OP

!968 -16000+ died.....in the worst month of the Vietnam War.. OAITW r.2.0 Apr 2020 #1

We have absolutely experienced this as a society. killaphill Apr 2020 #3

Not my point. OAITW r.2.0 Apr 2020 #5

And all is well with Deranged Donny Blue Owl Apr 2020 #2

those actual numbers should be way higher, that's only documented nt msongs Apr 2020 #4

OAITW r.2.0

(24,455 posts)

1. !968 -16000+ died.....in the worst month of the Vietnam War..

Reply to berni_mccoy (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2020, 10:54 PM

Apr 2020

We have never experienced this as a society. Everything changes on the other side. There will be a new "normal".

killaphill

(212 posts)

3. We have absolutely experienced this as a society.

Reply to OAITW r.2.0 (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 10, 2020, 10:56 PM

Apr 2020

We have experienced way worse. Do a little research on the Spanish flu.

OAITW r.2.0

(24,455 posts)

5. Not my point.

Reply to killaphill (Reply #3)

Fri Apr 10, 2020, 11:06 PM

Apr 2020

You can count on your fingers how many remember the Spanish Flu. I am giving reference to what many of us dealt with in the 70's. 56.000 died in VietNam, how many will die here? Turns out the enemy was a virulent virus aided and abetted by an ignorant (best case) President.

Our bad, we permanently fucked up our standing, world-wise.

Blue Owl

(50,349 posts)

2. And all is well with Deranged Donny

Reply to berni_mccoy (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2020, 10:56 PM

Apr 2020

n/t

msongs

(67,395 posts)

4. those actual numbers should be way higher, that's only documented nt

Reply to berni_mccoy (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2020, 10:59 PM

Apr 2020

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