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Sapient Donkey

(1,568 posts)
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 01:02 AM Jul 2020

Someone sent me a link to a website with a list of law enforcement who have been killed

They were trying to make some other stupid point about something related to how the police are he victim, or something ridiculous. Anyway, I started clicking around and noticed a lot of the law enforcement who have died were killed by covid. As I clicked through them it was one after another with covid. There were a lot of correctional officers listed too. Not a good sign for what's going on in the prison/jail systems. Real names of people makes it even more real if you haven't been exposed to it. It's not exploitative to send people who deny the seriousness of COVID to a site like that, right? I feel like it's irresponsible to not do whatever I can to try to get through their thick heads. Due of the nature of that specific site, I feel like that might have more of an impact on the type of people who refuse to accept the serious nature of it. Perhaps they will have a harder time just dismissing it as "liberal anti-trump propaganda". I dunno, I figured I'd share it in hopes that maybe it could be used to help folks here sway the covidiots in their life.

Here's the URL.
https://www.odmp.org/

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Someone sent me a link to a website with a list of law enforcement who have been killed (Original Post) Sapient Donkey Jul 2020 OP
More Covid-19 deaths than all other causes combined since the beginning of March. Make7 Jul 2020 #1
For all of 2020 it's 44% from COVID Sapient Donkey Jul 2020 #2
The best man at my wedding is on the list pfitz59 Jul 2020 #3
Were you still close when he died? Sapient Donkey Jul 2020 #4

Make7

(8,543 posts)
1. More Covid-19 deaths than all other causes combined since the beginning of March.
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 01:14 AM
Jul 2020

Unfortunately, I don't foresee the situation improving any time soon.

Sapient Donkey

(1,568 posts)
2. For all of 2020 it's 44% from COVID
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 01:24 AM
Jul 2020

I'm going to bet a site like that is pretty accurate in its numbers. And since March it's like 53% of deaths are COVID. I don't get how people can still deny this is a problem. The politicians for sure have these numbers and know the reality of the situation. It's disgusting how some of them can still pretend it's nothing.

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