The point was that there are lots of things that cause as many deaths or
more, but we aren't comparing them to people killed in Vietnam. They
specifically did this to try to raise an emotional point with people who
are touchy about the Vietnam conflict. It is just as relevant to compare
auto deaths with war casualties as it is with a virus. Neither have
anything to do with each other. It is fear mongering plain and simple.
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:30 AM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Flu has vaccine and Tamiflu. Without those, Flue would probably clear
> 2-300k annually. if we wanted to compare apples and apples.
> look to where the data saying that the destructin of society was effective
> is coming from. Its only coming from places that gain by that.
> Here is a secret, we didnt actually isolate. the stores are packed more
> than before, people who normally wouldnt have interacted are passing one
> another then came home and compressed families. We hot boxed is all that
> actually took place.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 9:48 AM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
>
>> I guess the difference is, you don’t do anything different and 66,000
>> people will get flu.
>> That is what the estimate is up to April 10 this year. We live with it.
>> Mostly old folks.
>>
>> But behaving the same way and you may have 300,000 corona deaths in
>> addition to the regular flu.
>> Just breathing on someone doesn’t give them the flu.
>>
>> *From:* Lewis Bergman
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 29, 2020 8:31 AM
>> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Hope?
>>
>> I don't think those are great comparisons but I think the Flu is. 66,000
>> died last year from the flu in the US and we still managed to walk around
>> and shake hands. But hey, if you think you might die, stay home.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 9:04 AM Cameron Crum <cc...@murcevilo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Why don't we put out graphs every year when we reach that many
>>> automobile deaths, or flu deaths, or heart disease deaths, or any other
>>> deaths in a specific category? Sensationalism and fear mongering rule the
>>> day.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 8:59 PM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why is that surprising. How many people did we put in country
>>>> throughout the war? There are 330 million here. If we had put 330 million
>>>> through Vietnam, we would have "won" and lost even more.
>>>>
>>>> I keep seeing the Vietnam thing and then laugh at the thought that
>>>> those present it also present statistics
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020, 8:37 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Interesting that today, April 28, we surpassed in a couple of months
>>>>> the number of US personnel killed in the Vietnam war over the course of 20
>>>>> years (1955-1975).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> bp
>>>>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 4/28/2020 6:46 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
>>>>>
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