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8. This virus will be the leading cause of death for the next year or two.

Mon Jul 13, 2020, 05:06 PM

Jul 2020

Step aside cancer and heart disease.

Deaths and permanent injury attributable to our automobile culture are equally abhorrent.

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Comparing COVID-19 mortality rate to traffic deaths [View all] SpankMe Jul 2020 OP

Get in the car with my mom, and you'll be singing a different tune! Beakybird Jul 2020 #1

A shutdown would reduce those deaths lame54 Jul 2020 #2

35K in 12 months, 112K in three months ... comparable? (112K since April 12) Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2020 #3

Plus, even before people started staying home with this, PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2020 #4

And then there's the hospitalizations, organ damage... Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2020 #5

"the money-obsessed" PSPS Jul 2020 #7