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In June, IHME predicted that the death toll in the U.S. would reach 200,000 by October, which appears to be on track.
[...] IHME previously projected 317,697 deaths by Dec. 1. The model now predicts that the daily death toll could rise to nearly 3,000 per day in December, up from over 800 per day now, according to Hopkins data.
[...] The most likely [IHME] scenario estimates that Covid-19 will kill 410,450 people in the U.S. by Jan. 1. The worst-case scenario, which assumes that restrictions and mask directives will ease, projects up to 620,028 people in the U.S. will die by then and the best-case scenario, which assumes universal masking, predicts that 288,380 people in the U.S. will die from Covid-19 in 2020.
[...] Despite the drop in new cases, the number of deaths caused by Covid-19 everyday in the U.S. has remained high, at nearly 1,000 new deaths per day, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
[The 9/11 terrorist attacks caused 2,977 deaths; the current US COVID-19 fatality rate is like having two 9/11 attacks each week. --Ed.]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @08:02PM (25 children)
There are too many people, burning too much energy, contributing to man made global warming. This pandemic will reduce the number of humans polluting the earth, therefore the pandemic is a Good Thing™. Let the bodies fall where they may.
I am Saint Greta, and I approve of this message.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @08:22PM (18 children)
The pandemic will probably increase emissions somehow. The lockdowns will end but everyone will be ordering junk online.
Meanwhile, it has killed only 0.01% of the global population. Mother Gaia loses yet again.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @08:27PM (16 children)
Mother Gaia is in conference with the Voodoo witches of the South, and the Druids of the North. Covid-19 is but Mother Gaia's opening salvo in the war against wasteful humanity.
I am Saint Greta, and I approve of this message.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @09:41PM
When will you call for Entmoot?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday September 05 2020, @10:55PM (14 children)
No, you're a triggered, stupid, cowardly little manlet who's losing a fight to a teenage girl on the other side of the planet. Face it, Thunberg is not only correct, she's a better person than you are or ever will be. Attempting to strawman her positions makes you look worse than just foolish: it makes you look creepy, like a paedophile in violent and completely ineffective denial of his own tendencies...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2020, @04:56AM (4 children)
Ahhhh, Zum-Zum weighs in. She is always triggered with any mention of the Great Saint Greta. Does Zum-Zum have the hots for the Viking babe? Wouldn't that be akin to pedophilia?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2020, @05:58AM
Kinda like how you're triggered by the topic of trans people.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 06 2020, @04:59PM (2 children)
I have a permanent philosophical yearning for the truth. Greta is speaking more of the truth than her opponents. She is also uniquely vulnerable to dangerous opposition due to being female and underage. Therefore, she gets a bit more defense from me than she would if she were, for example, in her mid-30s.
The fact that all you can think of is "hurr hurr Hazuki's defending Greta she must be hot for her" speaks very badly of your position and your arguments, such as they are. You would have done better to stay silent.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 07 2020, @01:00AM (1 child)
If I understand you correctly, "We bitches got to stick together!!"
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 07 2020, @03:12AM
You do not understand me correctly. And I suspect you are physically incapable of doing so.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2020, @03:50PM (8 children)
How does juvenile verbal diarrhea like this get moderated to +4 insightful? Does this user have sockpuppet accounts? I was hoping SN was a better /. in terms of the quality of discussion, but the comments on this story and the moderation to this point are a train wreck.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2020, @03:55PM (1 child)
Saint Greta's worshippers are very touchy about people contradicting Her Holy Message.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2020, @05:07PM
What's up with all the Saint Greta shit? Ever since the impeachment, she's been off the news cycle. Since Sweden stayed open, maybe she got to finish school.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 06 2020, @04:57PM
Honey, I don;t sockpuppet. I don't *need to.* If you're wondering how that got to +4 Insightful, here's a clue: *enough members of the community thought it was insightful enough to deserve that moderation.*
If you don't like it, your problem is with the entire community, not just me. You can always leave :)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2020, @06:53PM (4 children)
Unlikely. If your post is abusive to people that express conservative viewpoints, there are enough people here that will mod it up to the max.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2020, @08:08PM
Awww, so conservatives being abusive shits is fine, but someone calling you out for it is a bitch? I'll let you try and logic that one out for yourself.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 07 2020, @03:14AM (2 children)
"Conservative viewpoints" are much more often at odds with observable, testable reality than "liberal" ones. In other words, they are lies. I don't like lies. Expect abuse if you lie to me.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 07 2020, @03:22PM (1 child)
So the liberal view of the riots burning down democrat cities being peaceful fits your observable, testable reality huh? What a disingenuous little c-nt you are. Be on notice that vast the majority of us are on to you. If this war goes hot, progressives/socialists/communists like you will become quite uncomfortable.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 08 2020, @05:49PM
Just explain one thing to me: are you made of asbestos? Because I can't understand how the massive towering bonfire of strawmen you're built and lit hasn't consumed you utterly by now otherwise.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday September 07 2020, @02:51AM
Huh? Emissions are decreased when everyone buys their junk online. It takes far less fuel for one UPS driver to drive his truck around all day and deliver hundreds of packages than for every recipient of those packages to make a separate trip in their car to go shopping for it.
The pandemic has actually been a boon for nature and the planet, by massively reducing automobile traffic for a while.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @08:55PM (3 children)
Done and done. Let's start with you.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday September 06 2020, @01:53AM (2 children)
Of course, I also wear a mask, wash my hands, and do about 4 metres distancing or more when possible, because the whole 2 metres rule was based on 15 minutes and the flu. Not hours at a time and covid. I have no problem with the anti-mask gang self-selecting to be the next to die, and thank them for their sacrifice.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2020, @07:18PM (1 child)
Unfortunately they are like drunk drivers and they take out the innocent along the way.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Monday September 07 2020, @01:15AM
They (anti-mask crowds) tend to stick with their own kind. Which is fine with me, it's their funeral.
Licking toilets to "show that covid is a hoax" folks pretty much says it all.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @09:33PM
I don't understand, Saint Greta. Why is Trump your best ally in this Malthusian pursuit? The Republican Party values human life so highly they are prepared to force women to undergo involuntary pregnancy and childbirth. Why is a Republican president carrying out the globalist UN conspiracy to kill all those babies?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @11:31PM
Hello Ivan. Or is it Sergei? Or are you Igor? I'm ashamed to admit I haven't learned the distinct nuances of your individual propaganda styles. How are the conditions in your troll farm? Is Vlad Putin giving you guys the appropriate PPE and encouraging social distancing when you're working in the troll farm? Did Vlad prioritize troll farms in his COVID-19 vaccine campaign? If so, how's that going for you? I hope there haven't been any severe side effects from the vaccine that hasn't been fully tested.