Originally Posted by
DontLookDown
Out of curiosity I researched how many people die in the USA annually... the last stats were published for 2017 by the CDC saying 2.8 million Americans died that year.
The media loves saying “200,000 people died” as if that’s a big deal. In reality most of those people were going to die anyways.
It will be interesting to see if we even have an overall increase in death rate for 2020 once this is all said and done
750,000 people die each month in the US. Covid produced a small but perceptible uptick in those numbers.
But the folks having hysterics over this are people who have limited intellectual capacity with regards to big numbers, or are just willfully ignorant.
If hospitals have capacity, then everyone should be allowed to make their own choices. I grudgingly gave them benefit of the doubt for a couple weeks to get the medical capacity under control.