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nitpicker

(7,153 posts)
Mon Apr 27, 2020, 08:17 PM Apr 2020

Proportionately, this is as bad as the Battle of Normandy

In WWII, over about 2 1/2 months the US lost about 30000 soldiers.

But the US had a bit less than half today's population.

So after two months since the first community spread was publicized, JHU reports over 55000 dead.

May the apparently misguided moves by some state governors not lead to even worse comparisons.

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nitpicker

(7,153 posts)
1. From the sick joke 26 department: Finding Sara Johnson
Mon Apr 27, 2020, 09:41 PM
Apr 2020

A graduate student who had to leave campus housing after it was shut down.

Her parents were killed in a car crash trying to visit the grandparents who then died of CV.

Will they find her before the houses collapse from neglect?

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