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ProfessorGAC

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4. Kind Of Lacks Context

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat May 24, 2025, 03:55 PM

May 24

It attempts to provide some with the comparison to 2021, but that's fairly weak.
15,600 deaths per year.
41,000 people die in car accidents, and one can only die in such an event if they are in a car.
620,000 people die of cancer every year. COVID, right now is less than 2.5% of that.
Finally, COVID is endemic. The vaccines were never expected to completely disappear.
The context I think is appropriate in the article is that said deaths are 1/84th of what they were at the peak.
That seems like a huge improvement & not the doom news implied in the article.

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Why are more than 300 people in the US still dying from COVID every week? [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 24 OP

Approximately 58,000 Americans die every week speak easy May 24 #1

700 die from Flu per week, according to CDC. In any event, vax should continue. Silent Type May 24 #2

& almost nothing is played in the news. Aren't we in a binge of flagellation about reporting on BIDEN? UTUSN May 24 #3

Kind Of Lacks Context ProfessorGAC May 24 #4