December 10, 2020 By: El Jefe Category: Uncategorized
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Yesterday at 3,265 deaths is 3d on the all-time worst days, and was the worst single day in the last 100 years.
1I’m sure Trump’s daily casualty rate will be #1 soon. USA!
2Basically, right now, we are averaging a 9/11 every damned day. Every. Damned. Day.
3Statistics are statistics until driven home to the public by context. Over 3000 people are dying daily from the “hoax” Donnie both ignored and mismanaged, except for the pandemic profiteering which he entrusted to Jughead Kushner’s “portfolio.”
More than three thousand people dying daily because of political corruption. Medical ethics? To date 3 (known) saved by special exception: Donnie, Sleepy Ben and Rudy. Fog of war? Not since war criminal Dick Cheney received a heart transplant has the emergence of a two tier health ‘care’ system equal to the two tier ‘justice’ system been this pronounced.
4Gettysburg was a 3-day battle. The number listed here is for Union deaths in the whole battle. Confederate deaths were higher.
I am too lazy to look up the death total per day (which might be impossible anyway, as a man injured on the first day might linger for a time), but the average per day was about 2,300.
Missing from the list is the massacre of Irish Catholics in Cincinnati in the 1840s, an event nearly erased from history. The deaths were mostly women and children who were burned in their homes. The estimated death toll was around 3,000.
5also missing from the list is the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, estimated 3000+. The Johnstown floods would not quite make the lists.
6To put the -USA- death toll in another, also easily understood form, let’s consider the most common passenger airliners in commercial usage.
The Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 series aircraft, about 25,000 of them flying worldwide, carry about 200 pax and crew per flight, if filled. Of course there are also many larger types flying, carrying 200-700 souls.
So, it would take about –15–FIFTEEN– average airliners* crashing and killing all aboard, every fucking damned day of the week, to equal the -current- ~3,000 dead daily COVID-45 death toll.
And mind you, that 3K/day death toll is just a very transient number, it continues to climb and could well be 4,000, 6,000+ per day soon.
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USA #1 USA #1… soooo much goddamned WINNING!
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7* If they just kept on flying, and crashing, at the rate of 15/day-5,475/yr, the world would run out of them in about four and a half years.
Cripes, should have mentioned that if we had 15 airliners crashing every day killing 3000 flyers, we’d surely see hundreds per day also killed on the ground from all that aluminum precipitation falling on them.
And don’t forget about all the COVID-45 survivors who will end up with various ‘long haul’ complications that may debilitate and shorten their lives.
8Also, strictly speaking the Galveston storm reflects the total dead from the entire event which surely lasted more than a day. So, maybe COVID has a shot after all.
9Using airline crashes is brilliant! Yeah…15 airliners crashing every day would also have way more hell raised by the media (and more pressure on government) than the quiet announcement of two or three thousand deaths by a disease.
10Missing a couple of the cyclones that hit Puerto Rico …. Maria in 2017 the most notable. “at least 2,975 deaths” over a couple of days by one study.
Also, San Francisco earthquake, with estimated 3,000 there, and more across the bay in San Jose and north in Santa Rosa.
11Elizabeth Moon. I don’t recall who said it, but using airliners to put the risk chance in perspective, he noted that 2,500 flights leave the Atlanta airport every day and asked how many would fly if they knew 5 of them would crash.
12We need to make sure Boss Tweet is tagged as the worst mass murderer in US history…
13Old Fart, I yield to no one in my detestation of Trump but he’ll have to get in line.
If you count yellow people — and I think we should — then Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon lead the list.
Per capita, probably Jackson, but if you measure by percentage killed then my South Carolina ancestors who used to burn the Creek villages just before winter so that everyody would starve.
We Americans have a really ugly history that hardly anybody knows.
14While the list of daily deaths lends itself to the narrative of a horrible pandemic (which COVID most certainly is), a little research would reveal that during October 1918 (the most deadly month of the Spanish Flu pandemic) an estimated 180,000 Americans died.
On average, 6,000 people were killed, every day, for 30 days.
Admittedly, this information would push COVID so far down on the list as to be uninteresting to most people. But nevertheless I think it’s important that we accurately cite our statistics lest deniers cite them for us and impugn the credibility of the report and the reporter.
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