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Turbineguy

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3. Republicans are hoping for that.

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2020, 02:12 PM

May 2020

When they found out the pandemic was killing mostly brown or dark-skinned people, they liked the virus. Sure, a few white Grandpa's and Grandma's croaked, but the sooner they go, the sooner you inherit their stash!

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Study projects US COVID-19 deaths to triple by end of year [View all] left-of-center2012 May 2020 OP

How will trumpie lie that away? louis-t May 2020 #1

This is going to be a rough fucking winter NickB79 May 2020 #2

Republicans are hoping for that. Turbineguy May 2020 #3

Ah, but that was in high-density major metro areas. Now it's striking mainly white America... machoneman May 2020 #13

What distancing? Haven't seen it yet, maybe a few larger cities but that's about it. nt yaesu May 2020 #4

Didn't need a study to project that. Canoe52 May 2020 #5

This means nearly 3000 people per day dying. That's twice as many people as my town has. Ford_Prefect May 2020 #6

Rural areas have plenty of togetherness IronLionZion May 2020 #7

? Igel May 2020 #8

3000 a day gets us to 700,000 dead by Dec 31 NickB79 May 2020 #10

These numbers are consistent with my Feb calculations based on 1918 and population growth bucolic_frolic May 2020 #9

IF the US kept on its current pace of 10K deaths a week nitpicker May 2020 #11

How many will be dead by Nov's election day? left-of-center2012 May 2020 #12

There's no slowing the spread anymore. It's already everywhere. Initech May 2020 #14