The deaths we've decided to accept

[Nevilledog]

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Philip Bump
@pbump
More people have died of covid than have been murdered in the U.S. since I've been alive.

washingtonpost.com
Analysis | The deaths we’ve decided to accept
More people have died of covid than have been murdered in the United States since 1976.
9:15 PM · Jan 31, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/31/accepting-covid-deaths/

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Guys, look. It’s been a rough few years, and I understand that. But I think you’ll agree when I say it’s simply time to move on. To start living our lives without fear. To stop trying to force folks to do things they don’t want to do simply to limit the small chance that people might die as a result.

So, I’ll say it: I’m ready to move on from worrying about murder.

There was an interesting tweet over the weekend that drew an analogy I hadn’t considered.

“More Americans have died of COVID in the past 11 days than have died of murder in any year ever,” attorney David Menschel wrote.

At first I misread it and thought he was saying that there had been more deaths from covid-19 than people murdered in the United States in its history, which is obviously wrong. But he was looking at just one year. And, yes: the country saw more new covid deaths from Jan. 18 to 30 than the number of murders in 1991, 24,700. (If you’re about to start typing “dying with!!!!!!” in an email or a tweet, please read this.) Those days were deadlier for Americans than the deadliest year for homicides in our country’s history.

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[madville]

1. It's mostly unvaccinated

They’ve had plenty of opportunity to protect themselves and get educated. I don’t wish any ill will on them but we have to move on with life. If they accept the risk I’m not gonna worry about it for them.

[Nevilledog]

4. It disturbs me that we've forgotten about the immunosuppressed & little kids.

I, too, don't give a shit about the WILLFULLY unvaxxed, but what about those who can't get vaxxed?

It's fine if they want to kill themselves. However, they're killing others.

[RockRaven]

5. Plus the unlucky among healthy/fully vaxxed, whose very-reduced death rate is still non-zero...

Those people are also victims of these disease-mongers whose irresponsibility is magnifying the spread, and therefore the deaths, beyond what it would otherwise be. It's low rate, yeah, but that low rate is being applied to hundreds of millions of us and the absolute number is still terribly large.

[madville]

6. The vaccinated contract and spread COVID also

Especially with Omicron. Unfortunately since the vaccines don’t really prevent infection now it’s just as likely the vaccinated are spreading COVID to vulnerable people as the unvaccinated.

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. But the reality is.....most ICUs are filled with unvaxinnated people.

So, no vax- big resource drain on our healthcare system. When do people pay for the luxury of their personal freedumd?

[calimary]

10. There is that.

[Hoyt]

2. Basically agree, at least right now.

[johnp3907]

3. An awful lot of Covid deaths are tantamount to murder.

Kinda muddies the math.

[Initech]

8. More Americans have "VOLUNTARILY" died of COVID in the last week.

At this point most of the deaths are voluntary because they bought into the misinformation sphere. And it's truly insane how many of them are falling for it.

[BigmanPigman]

9. At this point in the virus

the majority who die have chosen their fate and I have no sympathy for them. For the few who have gotten ill and died due to other health issues which prevented them from getting vaxxed and boostered I feel very, very badly for. Life is not fair for them.

I think that tRump needs to be put on trial for genocide. He alone has caused the US to suffer as it has. Hanging is too good for that mother fucking bastard.

[nitpicker]

11. According to JHU

From 17 to 31 Jan, average reported deaths were 2404 a day.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. This mass dying event has huge social, economic and cultural implications that simply aren't being

addressed -- and we'll be paying for it for generations.