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Old 04-01-2020, 11:28 PM
 
Location: Flyover part of Virginia
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The "It'S JuSt ThE fLu br01!" people are looking more deranged everyday.
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Old 04-01-2020, 11:34 PM
 
Location: North Carolina
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It may be the 3rd leading cause of death at the moment, but it may well be the primary cause of Trump's defeat in November. "Who knew healthcare was so hard or that sooo... many people would die".
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Old 04-01-2020, 11:48 PM
 
Location: Japan
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The novel coronavirus, which causes the respiratory disease COVID-19, has become the No. 3 cause of death in the U.S., following heart disease and cancer.
What percentage of deaths attributed to COVID-19 have been people who were already very weak or dying from heart disease or cancer?
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Old 04-01-2020, 11:50 PM
 
Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan
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The flu is the 8th leading cause of death, and it's not ever going away... But you'll never hear that from the media.
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Old 04-01-2020, 11:53 PM
 
Location: North Carolina
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The flu is the 8th leading cause of death, and it's not ever going away... But you'll never hear that from the media.

Well how did you find out then?
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Old 04-01-2020, 11:56 PM
 
Location: Japan
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Well how did you find out then?
There's this thing called google...

Leading causes of death in America
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Old 04-01-2020, 11:59 PM
 
Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan
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Well how did you find out then?

Google search. I was surprised to learn several years ago that flu and complications from flu (pneumonia like with Covid-19) is a regular leading cause of death in the USA. But CNN did come out with some articles on the flu, claiming that the death toll a couple years ago was particularly high, at over 80,000. If that was true, that may put it in 7th place, ahead of kidney and renal diseases.

I'm much more worried about cancer, and would rather see a war declared on that. It kills over 1/2 million Americans every year, and I would bet it kills, in order of magnitude, far more young people than Covid-19 will.
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Old 04-01-2020, 11:59 PM
 
Location: North Carolina
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There's this thing called google...

Leading causes of death in America

Oh! From a media source ...I should have known. Everything's on the Inter-webs, right?
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Old 04-02-2020, 12:01 AM
 
Location: Honolulu/DMV Area/NYC
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Well how did you find out then?
The CDC reports it. But the CDC isn't the media last time I checked

Note, I don't doubt that this isn't being reported by the media either, but you definitely don't need the media to find out these numbers.
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Old 04-02-2020, 12:04 AM
 
Location: North Carolina
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The CDC reports it. But the CDC isn't the media last time I checked

Note, I don't doubt that this isn't being reported by the media either, but you definitely don't need the media to find out these numbers.

media
  1. the main means of mass communication (broadcasting, publishing, and the Internet) regarded collectively.
    "their demands were publicized by the media"
  2. plural form of medium.
  3. I guess it's just the media you don't agree with.
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