Actually it is 127,640 now, but Republican don't give-a-damn because trump doesn't give-a-damn.
Right... so 610,000 people have died of the flu in the last 10 years. You don't have a damn do you?
Or maybe you don't shut down the planet, and destroy people's lives, over an illness that kills less people than the flu.
By the way, a huge number of those, were from idiots like Cuomo sending people he knew had Corvid-19, back to nursing homes where most of the highest risk people were. So Democrats don't give a damn, and proved it by their actions.
127,952 in 5 months seems like a significant figure to me. At the present rate, 10 years would come out to 1,535,424 and at the moment their is no vaccine or cure. What is you point?
Not really, when you consider it is a novel virus we have never seen before.
A 3% death rate was high. Predictions of millions of deaths. That's an issue.
Then we found that hospitals were labeling every death they could, to be a Covid-19 death, because they got a much larger reimbursement for a Covid death, than a Flu or other death.
Then we found out that the death rate was much lower than that.
Now we found that possibly the number of infected people is 10 times higher, which would mean that the death rate for this illness is even a fraction of the much lower rate.
What this means is that this is less deadly than the flu.
Which again, all conservatives not blinded by ideology knew this. The numbers of deaths never matched the predictions, because the predictions were based on the garbage assumed death rates.
But back to your point, that it seems like a lot of deaths for the time frame.
Not really. It's a novel virus. Meaning no one anywhere had any immunity to it. Flu has been around for thousands of years.
Logically the flu will have fewer deaths, not because it is less deadly, but rather because people have immunity to it.
Plus we have vaccines.
So one would expect that the initial onset of the virus is going to have a bunch of deaths.
Does that mean we shut down the entire economy? Why? For what purpose?
To stop the spread? The virus is more contagious than the flu, and that's with vast numbers in the nation having had it before and having some immunity to it, and with vaccines.
If the flu, which is less contagious, has been around for thousands of years, and we have vaccines for it.... if we can't control that, then why did you think lock downs would stop it?
This is why Sweden, Japan, Florida, which didn't have lock downs, didn't have significantly higher death rates than those places which did have lock downs.
Slowing down Corona we can do.... but at what cost? Ruining people's lives. Destroying the economy? High suicide rates?
This isn't a "life vs money" issue. This is a "life vs life" issue. People are dying right now, and the Democrats don't care. Suicide rates have been extremely high, and all they care about is getting rid of Trump.