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Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 06:07 PM Jul 2020

Let's put things into prospective

Americans killed by Ebola : 2
Americans killed in Benghazi: 4
Americans killed in the Spanish American: 2,246
Americans killed in War of 1812: 2,260
Americans killed in American Revolution: 4,435
Americans killed in the Mexican War: 13,283
Americans killed in Korean War: 33,746
Americans killed in Vietnam War: 58,152
Confederate Soldiers Killed in battle during the Civil War: 94,000
Union Soldiers Killed in battle during the Civil War: 110,100
Americans killed in Europe WWI: 116,516
Americans killed by Trump in COVID pandemic: 154,941 <--- you are here
Americans killed by Japan WWII: 160,914
Americans killed by Axis in Europe WWII: 214,362

https://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/cwsurgeon/cwsurgeon/statistics

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Let's put things into prospective (Original Post) Snake Plissken Jul 2020 OP
This! Thank you so much! n/t MFGsunny Jul 2020 #1
trump virus...GOP virus, they are not done yet, someone DO SOMETHING Eliot Rosewater Jul 2020 #2
jeeze...you put it that way stillcool Jul 2020 #3
Add to those numbers that this has only happened in a little over 5 months. smirkymonkey Jul 2020 #4
Or this way if..fish..had..wings Jul 2020 #5

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
3. jeeze...you put it that way
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 07:15 PM
Jul 2020

hard to believe that many people have disappeared from our little piece of the planet in such a short amount of time.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
4. Add to those numbers that this has only happened in a little over 5 months.
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 07:27 PM
Jul 2020

Five Months!! That is one hell of a body count for such a short period of time.

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