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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Covid-19 has killed over 200,000 Americans in SIX MONTHS. That's more per month/year than any war. How are we still pretending it is no big deal?

This virus is a formidable enemy. We need to unite to fight it, not whine about masks and skipping pedicures.

War -- Number of American deaths 
American Civil War (1861-1865) 620,000 
World War II (1939-1945) 405,399 
World War I (1917-1918) 116,516 
Vietnam War (1965-1973) 58,209 
Korean War (1950-1953) 36,516 
American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) 25,000 
War of 1812 (1812-1815) 20,000 
Mexican-American War (1846-1848) 13,283 
War on Terror** (2001-present) 7,053 
SpanishAmerican War (1898) 2,446 
Gulf War (1990-1991) 258 [/quote]

group the war deaths and [b]covid deaths by age[/b] ranges to get a better understanding of why not everyone feels the way you do. otherwise this is a completely disingenuous comparison void of any critical thinking. [/quote]

So elderly lives and those of minorities and the lives of people with co-morbidities are worth....what? What about the overall health of athletes who may have long term effects, covid long haulers, and people who survive but are nearly disabled from their hospital stay? They are worth...what?[/quote]
The point is that, in this pandemic, we’re asking the people who are not really at risk to give up a lot, emotionally, economically and socially, in order to protect other people, and not really offering them anything in return.

Why should a health 25 year old shut themselves away for some indeterminate time period in order to protect someone they don’t know?[/quote]

Could the healthy 25 year old at least wear an f’ing mask??? I think it has been projected we’d have 80k fewer deaths by the end of the year if most people wear masks regularly. [/quote]

yes, it was projected by an absolute garbage model that has already (just 4 weeks later!) reduced their death projection by half. that IHME projection was outside of their given confidence intervals in less than 2 weeks!. it is completely fabricated and is why their is such distrust of the media and "the science" on this issue.

what happens when masking does not produce any noticeable reduction or impact in the virus? whats the next mandate? schools closed next year too? stay at home orders? masks are the line that is drawn so that the argument does not move to the next stage of draconian orders. nationwide, masks have shown to have no impact on the course of an outbreak. [/quote]

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