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AbsolutVT03

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No clue what you mean by "finally been over a year in your mind". Did I


say otherwise at any point? Your comment seems to be referring to something specific but hell if I know what it is. To be honest I'm not sure what your point is. Did not enough people die for your liking? We're easily over 500,000 but you could easily look up those numbers yourself. Your % of the total population that have died is still as meaningless as it was last year. Any cause of death is going to look miniscule compared to the overall total population. About the same number of people have died from COVID as die from all cancers combined every year. So is your argument that cancer is not something worth trying to prevent and/or cure? And FWIW, cancer is not contagious. COVID is right up there as one of the leading causes of death since it started spreading... and it's the only one that's contagious. So I don't think you're making the point you think you are.

FWIW here are the numbers on the leading causes of deaths in the US from 2019. Feel free to calculate how minute they are in terms of the overall population:

Heart disease: 659,041
Cancer: 599,601
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 173,040
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 156,979
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 150,005
Alzheimer’s disease: 121,499
Diabetes: 87,647
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 51,565
Influenza and pneumonia: 49,783
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,511

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Posted: 07/27/2021 at 9:37PM



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