munkle
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I think we should be taking this seriously, but my question why the constant panic headlines and alarms? Around 2.5 million people die in the US every year. If you take your handy Windows calculator and divide that by 365 days in a year, that's around 7,000 people every day. Not saying this isn't serious. But 200,000 deaths as Trump forecast a most likely case scenario, going by what the numbers are doing, would be a 7% bump in normal fatalities, vast majority old age or natural causes.
Like I said I get it. This is sad. But why the constant, never-ending pumping up of the fear? How many will that kill? People committing suicide and doing things they wouldn't ordinarily do? For the first time I truly understand the meaning of President FDR's statement: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
edit - Ok next headline "Grocery workers beginning to die of coronavirus." Panic. No food. Of course out of millions of grocery workers some dying of corona is inevitable. One was a greeter. Why the over the top panic headline "beginning" to die, like everyone is going to start dropping like flies. How old was he or she? Co-morbidity? WTF is going on here guys?
Like I said I get it. This is sad. But why the constant, never-ending pumping up of the fear? How many will that kill? People committing suicide and doing things they wouldn't ordinarily do? For the first time I truly understand the meaning of President FDR's statement: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
edit - Ok next headline "Grocery workers beginning to die of coronavirus." Panic. No food. Of course out of millions of grocery workers some dying of corona is inevitable. One was a greeter. Why the over the top panic headline "beginning" to die, like everyone is going to start dropping like flies. How old was he or she? Co-morbidity? WTF is going on here guys?
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