JimBowie1958
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60,000 is a pretty high number of estimated deaths for a flu season. Looking at the CDC estimates, the number of deaths per flu season between 2010 and 2017 ranged from 12,000 to 51,000, with an average of about 34,571. The 2017-2018 preliminary estimate is 61,000.
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Coronavirus Becomes Leading Cause of Death in U.S.
Just last week, COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death, averaging around 748 deaths per day, but as the virus has continued to spread, the increase in daily deaths have followed.
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During a recent White House press briefing, Birx explained that the decreasing projections are a correlation to how American citizens have been following social distancing measures.
"What has been so remarkable, I think, to those of us that have been in the science field for so long is how important behavioral change is," Birx said. "And how amazing Americans are at adapting to and following through on these behavioral changes."...
In the U.S., there have been at least 14,808 reported deaths related to the virus. On the other hand, over 24,000 have recovered from the virus in the U.S. and at least 337,074 have recovered worldwide...
Through the month of April, COVID19 has been the leading cause of death daily in the USA, though we have flattened out the growth rate so that our health care system can now handle it easily.
Still, this is more than heart disease and cancer, and there is still a potential for it to come roaring back, so we need to keep social distancing and wearing masks, but we can re-open the economy, in a careful way.
But partisan politics has poisoned the discussion this whole time, and dont understand why, other than that some one the left see this as an opportunity to remake our society, which is bullkaka, and some on the right can only see this whole thing as a fraud, as many of them stupidly believe the Y2k crisis was a fraud as well. Why? Because we dodge the bullet, the bullet therefore never existed, lol.
I am disturbed by the reluctance of some of our governors to loosen the strings of power they have so quickly snatched up.
It was understood that the point of the lockdowns was to 'flatten the curve'. The WH issued guidelines that these governors followed to issue these lockdowns through emergency powers, in cooperation with the WH. Now that this goal has been achieved of flattening this curve, it is time to open back up, but these few governors refuse to do so, contrary to the guidelines they agreed to.
Continued lockdowns are beginning to stink of authoritarianism and of 'never let a crisis go to waste' and not protecting the lives, wealth, liberties and freedoms of our citizenry.
This is the prescription for Civil War if the goobernators dont mind their manners.