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Grim Reaper: Covid19 [ 12 weeks ] vs Vietnam War Dead [ 16 years ]

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4/28/20 WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. coronavirus death toll reached a grim milestone on Tuesday, surpassing the number of American lives lost in the Vietnam War [...]

As of Tuesday, 58,233 have died of COVID-19 in the United States, according to a Reuters tally, eclipsing in 12 weeks the total number of Americans killed during 16 years of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam. U.S. coronavirus deaths have averaged about 2,000 a day this month.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healt…

10 comments

  • doctorevil
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    4 years ago
    Totally meaningless comparison solely designed to make COVID-19 seem scarier than it is. According to the CDC 647,000 Americans die every year from heart disease. https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.h… That's 12,442 per week, or almost 150,000 every twelve weeks.
  • Electronman
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    4 years ago
    Very sad. And with no end in obvious end in sight. I do hope that we emerge from this experience with more wisdom and better preparation.
  • bdirect
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    4 years ago
    it is sad to bring vietnam up again..... that was 60years ago we fought the communist
  • Electronman
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    4 years ago
    Dr Evil makes a good point. We really don’t know what the annual death toll will be from COVID but it will certainly show up in the top 10 causes of death in the US. That is still cause for concern.
  • scarface03
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    4 years ago
    Stupid comparison, as Vietnam deaths were mostly young men dying in the prime of their lives.
  • bdirect
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    4 years ago
    should compare 1918 virus to corona virus................americans were killed by a communist soldier and not by a virus.......... my thoughts are that our govt. did not get the message from all those people killed by communist in 1960 and in the 1950 korea..... bottom line : don't trust any communist state
  • Member6532
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    4 years ago
    What percent of the population went to war? Seems like we compare something 100% of the population is exposed to and compare it to less than 1% of the population was exposed to and surprised the numbers are higher. What are the chances of blowing up in America vs getting the flu? Let's compare and see how dumb this comparison is
  • doctorevil
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    4 years ago
    "our govt. did not get the message from all those people killed by communist in 1960 and in the 1950 korea.." And now they're killing Americans in 2020 with the Wuhan virus.
  • Clubber
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    4 years ago
    And don't forget, a lot of data coming out that the death count has been shown very inaccurate. Example: Many doctors have said they were told to code most any death as chinese virus.
  • jackslash
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    4 years ago
    Over 1 million cases of covid-19 in USA because of Trump's lack of leadership and denial of science. He ignored the warnings from his own intelligence agencies, and has put science-denier Pence in charge of the government response. But I have to give him credit for finding a cure: drink or ingest bleach.
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