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Ford_Prefect

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

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2020, 02:35 PM

May 2020

I'm in rural MT farm country but not far from the suburban sprawl. It won't take long to wipe us out once the spread happens. All it takes is one or two fools who can't wait to go fishing passing through from Idaho, Washington, Oregon or Utah.

The good hospital is 50 miles from here and it serves the whole of western MT.

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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