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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I just looked it up and the global cumulative deaths from COVID is around 7 million people.

"Only" 0.1% of the humans living on earth, died, so it's not bad, right?

.... And I'm very positive the data is confirmed deaths by COVID, so it's likely a very low figure compared to how many people died from COVID, or died from other things that were complicated by COVID, or died by complications of COVID directly, or died because the hospitals and medical care systems were too overwhelmed by COVID patients to care for them.

I'd estimate that number is probably double if you took all of the associated deaths into account.

It's very very likely that you know someone or are someone who lost someone to COVID. Yet these uneducated chucklefucks think they know better than PhD doctors, researchers, and scientists, that have been studying this shit their entire fucking lives, have qualifications up the ass, and who have dedicated years of their lives to even understanding what a virus is, nevermind any specific virus' behavior. A nontrivial number of them have been working the problem longer than some of these fucks have been drawing back oxygen. Yet, they're not to be believed because reasons.

These kinds of people can get fucked. I hope that they, and their dumbass offspring get a preventable disease and fucking croak, so the world can be less goddamned stupid.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

7 million would be 0.1%. but that's still a lot.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Sorry, my brain isn't happy about doing math right now; I won't get into why.

Thank you for the correction. I will update my post now.