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malaise

(294,171 posts)
Thu Jul 8, 2021, 07:10 AM Jul 2021

Covid 19 has killed over four million people across our planet

According to Jamaica's last census in 2019, we have 2.948 million folks here - just imagine every one of us dead and then add another million or so.

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Klaralven

(7,510 posts)
4. Only 0.05% in a year and a half.
Thu Jul 8, 2021, 07:37 AM
Jul 2021
Global human population growth amounts to around 83 million annually,[2] or 1.1% per year.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth

Covid 19 had an imperceptible effect on population growth.

It certainly won't save us from ecological disaster.

Botany

(76,697 posts)
5. Obama had left behind the personal, the protocols, and the people which should have stopped "it" ...
Thu Jul 8, 2021, 07:39 AM
Jul 2021

... in China. Trump got rid of all that stuff.

malaise

(294,171 posts)
6. Yep but it's not just the Slobfather
Thu Jul 8, 2021, 07:57 AM
Jul 2021

although the death rate in the US is mind blowing and did not have to happen

Botany

(76,697 posts)
7. Firing the Global Pandemic Task Force, firing the CDC's epidemiologist who was on the ground ...
Thu Jul 8, 2021, 08:01 AM
Jul 2021

... in Wuhan, pulling us out of PREDICT, and getting into a fight w/the W.H.O. (world health organization)
are all on Donny and the results have been divesting world wide.

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