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from the keep-your-distance-and-wear-your-mask dept.
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: 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...