Global Covid cases exceeded 10 million today

[sandensea]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

New daily cases reached a record 194,000 yesterday. Total recorded global deaths thus far will exceed 500,000 sometime today (5,000 daily).

The U.S. accounts for over 25% of total cases and deaths - despite being home to just 4.2% of the world's population.

[CountAllVotes]

1. 10,000,000+ since Feb. 2

Feb. 2, 2020 is the magic date, the date that the first corona virus case was found outside of China.

Here we are 5 mos. later = 2,000,000 deaths a month sans China (will we ever know the reality w/China?).

Anyway, if it goes on as it is right now, we'll have another 24,000,000 dead by Xmas or 34,000,000+ (1/10th of the pop. of the USA) worldwide.



If this doesn't depress the shit out of you, well toss me some of those magic happy pills you are taking!

& recommend !!

[abqtommy]

2. Thanks for the stats but I just realized that China and India together have a population of

2.9 BILLION people...

[sandensea]

4. Amazing isn't it - especially India.

50 years ago, they had fewer than 1.4 billion between them (838 million in China; 543 million in India).

Now they have about that many each - and India will soon overtake China as the world's most populous nation.

Plus, because of economic growth, they emit a lot more greenhouse gases than in 1970.

Indian traffic in 1970 (Mumbai)



Indian traffic in 2017 (New Delhi)

[malaise]

3. This needs to be seen

Get thee to the greatest page

[sandensea]

5. Thank you, malaise.

Luckily, brooklynite posted the story on LBN - as he very reliably does.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142525646

It's amazing how few people are aware or this milestone. To think that in a few months, we'll be talking about a 100 million cases.

I hope I'm wrong about that.

[malaise]

6. A stunning number

What a mess