In the same time frame… the two legal drugs ALCOHOL & TOBACCO/Nicotine will have contributed to the death of abt 183,000 people or about 550,000 EVERY YEAR.. but no crisis… not shutting down of businesses nor sheltering in place for a large majority of our population for months.
One hundred thousand Americans dead in less than four months
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/100000-deaths-american-coronavirus/
It’s as if every person in Edison, N.J., or Kenosha, Wis., died. It’s half the population of Salt Lake City or Grand Rapids, Mich. It’s about 20 times the number of people killed in homicides in that length of time, about twice the number who die of strokes.
The death toll from the coronavirus passed that hard-to-fathom marker on Wednesday, which slipped by like so many other days in this dark spring, one more spin of the Earth, one more headline in a numbing cascade of grim news.
Nearly three months into the brunt of the epidemic, 14 percent of Americans say they know someone who has succumbed to the virus.
These 100,000 are not nameless numbers, nor are they mostly famous people. They are, overwhelmingly, elderly — in some states, nearly two-thirds of the dead were 80 or older. They are disproportionately poor and black and Latino. Among the younger victims, many did work that allowed others to stay at home, out of the virus’s reach.
For the most part, they have died alone, leaving parents and siblings and lovers and friends with final memories not of hugs and whispered devotion, but of miniature images on a computer screen, tinny voices on the phone, hands pressed against a window.
The dead are not equally dispersed across the land. They perish mostly in pockets — in huge, frightening outbreaks such as the one in New York City, and in smaller ones, flares of disaster around meatpacking plants, in immigrant neighborhoods and at facilities for the elderly.
The demise of these 100,000 people has had strangely little public impact in a country with a long history of honoring its fallen and committing to common cause in their memory.
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“The demise of these 100,000 people has had strangely little public impact in a country with a long history of honoring its fallen and committing to common cause in their memory”
Oh that’s rich. How “honored” are fallen CPPs….heck, how much does this country really honor it’s veterans? Denial of pain meds to wounded vets, dreadful health care in general, a true “epidemic” of suicides in vets is ignored…what flaming a hypocritical statement!
It’s like the delusional folk who keep trumpeting that we have the greatest health care in the world. Not by a long shot!
IF they counted them right, which I seriously doubt. The amount of tax money they got was based on how many cases and we know some that woulds say ANYTHING to get a pay-off and divert it into their own pocket. That said, we didn’t need another deadly virus, especially with nursing homes in their current state of disrepair and almost ZERO sterile/aseptic technique in actual use.
true on all counts, F1. The “first Covid death” in my county was attributed to a 61 y.o. woman who was hospitalized for a heart attack, & she had some flu-like symptoms, then she died in a day or two (the flu-like symptoms were apparently never that severe). They either didn’t test her at all or the test did not come back positive, I don’t remember, but all the headlines were screaming about the first Covid19 death as if it were a stone-clad absurdity. It was beyond absurd.
Wisconsin loves the smell of its own health care stink.
CORRECT ALL CASES OF RESPIRATORY DEATHS ARE REPORTED AS COVID 19 1 OR COVIS 19 2…. 1 IS A CONFIRMED VIRUS POSITIVE (WHO KNOWS IF ACTIVE OR NOT) AND 2 IS ANY RESPIRATORY RELATED DEATH NOT TESTED OR CONFIRMED…THIS IS IN ARIZONA..HMMM NO WONDER WE ARE ONE OF THE HIGHEST IN CODOD 19 DEATHS…AGREED 100% ALCOHOL KILLS MORE PEOPLE EVERY DAY, WEEK, MONTH AND YEAR THAN ANY VIRUS OR PAIN MEDICATION LETS BAN BOOZE AND LOCK UP ALL ALCOHOLICS IN A BUNKER WHY DON’T WE…GET A GRIP AMERICA
They called every death covid that’s why duh