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[quote=Anonymous][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]

You're arguing that that's different than a war?  That healthy young people aren't sent to war to protect other people?

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Well yes they are, but they’ve also signed for a job.  I don’t want anyone to go to war but these particular young people signed up and are getting pay checks and job training in exchange for the possibility of going to war.[/quote]
Everyone who went to Vietnam "signed up" to be there? [/quote]

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