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LiberalArkie

(15,703 posts)
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 11:32 AM Apr 2020

Not as bad as the flu ?


23,600 Americans usually die from the annual flu estimated by CDC from October 1, 2019 to April 4, 2020..

A total of 58,209 Americans died in the Vietnam War from 1955 to 1975. Of these, 47,424 are listed as combat deaths, and 10,785 are listed as being killed in other circumstances. In addition, 2,489 Americans are listed as missing. The Vietnam War ranks fourth among U.S. wars in most Americans killed.

As of 10 AM April 29 - 58,471
Americans have died of Covid19 per the Johns Hopkins web site since January.1, 2020

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/28/the-us-coronavirus-death-toll-surpasses-american-casualties-from-the-vietnam-war.html?fbclid=IwAR17O6xNa2MGJgyjXX_NSVSuwxKMyYp1zpPNscIbU025HK46x940oePl4Dw
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Not as bad as the flu ? (Original Post) LiberalArkie Apr 2020 OP
A Vietnam War a month for the foreseeable future, too SoonerPride Apr 2020 #1
Republicans know it's bad . . . Iliyah Apr 2020 #2
Greed Over People Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2020 #4
US dead in Vietnam and from Covid-19 have a thing in common: tRump didn't fight for either group. nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2020 #3
Some gave all.... Tanuki Apr 2020 #6
58,471 is also ... Towlie Apr 2020 #5
59,388 . . . . Iliyah Apr 2020 #7

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
1. A Vietnam War a month for the foreseeable future, too
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 11:42 AM
Apr 2020

"We will have so much winning you will get tired of winning so much."

I am indeed tired of it.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
2. Republicans know it's bad . . .
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 11:46 AM
Apr 2020

But money prompt lives with them. That almighty dollar, that pretty mean green, gold and silver oh my. Survival of the fittest. circle of life, the strong shall survive AS LONG AS IT APPLIES TO THEM. Not me, nor my family, only for them.

Within a month or so, close to 60,000 has died from COVID-19. Anyone with a brain knows that is worse than the flu.

Fuck them.

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