Over 90% of those deaths are Americans.
Accidental falls killed over 40,000 Americans aged 65+ in 2023 alone…
🦠 Flu: CDC estimates roughly 10,000–80,000 deaths per year, depending heavily on the season…
Drowning kills over 4,000 people per year in the U.S. — that’s 20× more than 200.
Let’s ban water.
Month vs Year
Also deaths from covid are preventable, unlike accidents
What a completely incoherent thing to say. The title says per month so 24k a year which is six times the drowning deaths not one twentieth.
Edit: I am also bad at math, but it’s still a dumb argument. If it were possible to ban COVID that would be unequivocally good, banning water obviously has some problems.
Gotta love when people try to fix someone’s bad math by fucking up their own
I fucked up a word, the math is correct for the unit in the headline and I corrected it so fast my comment doesn’t even have an edit disclaimer.
Calm down.
No, 200 x 12 is 2400, or 2.4K annually (if we don’t factor in 90% of deaths and calculate it as 180 x 12). You’re off by a factor of 10. Covid deaths are 60% as common as drowning using that math, not 600%.
Oh shit youre absolutely right. Well fuck me then.
How does that compare to the normal flu? And did flu related deaths go down?
Just gotta eat more horse paste and drink a little extra bleach.
That’s surprising, considering we have dedicated antivirals for it now. 😲
Those don’t work very well compared to the vaccines and the people who would most benefit from them refuse to take them anyway.
i know people that are more resistant to taking the vaccine then when it was first introduced. what a surprise a bunch of them got the variant last year, and spread it to my family.
Well, fuck it. Let them.
There’s a really bad surge in Texas right now that hit me like a truck. I’d had it a few times before, but this was by far the worst and the shortness of breath and brain fog aren’t going away this time.
Lucky you. I got that the first time I had Covid during the pandemic. I was one of the “lucky” 35% or of people that ended up with those long term effects. I still lose words in mid sentence and can’t remember what I was going to say next. The word is there in my head, and then instantly gone. It’s the worst thing in the world…
I had that. I used nicotine to recover from it. Sounds strange but it worked. Low dose nic patch, worn 24/7, for about 3 weeks.
The downside is I started vaping again (very low dose nic) but I got my brain back.
I got the covid brain-fog back in 2023, it took me almost 18 months to recover. It almost felt like I was getting Alzheimers, forgetting names of everyday things.
And for some of us, it will never go away.
I heard that nicotine might be beneficial. try a nicotine patch.
I heard ivermectin works. Go buy a bunch. /s
I’ve heard meth helps. But you have to get it from this one guy I know. You can trust him. He’s a Republican.
You guys aren’t injecting bleach? Libtards /s
Well crap. Sorry too hear. I hope it does go away in time. Long COVID is no joke.
A few times before ? Wtf
It’s been 6 years. It’s not that weird. I got it in July of 2022, sometime in 2024, and at the very end of August this year.
Hasn’t everyone had it at least once by now?
Never tested positive for Covid over here. One cold one time in 2025, other than that I just haven’t been sick since 2019. I also had a stockpile of N95 masks before the pandemic because I was worried about a pandemic. I figured it would last about 5-10 years, and so far I have sadly been basically correct.
My husband and I still have not had it. At first we thought maybe we were just asymptomatic. Nope, I got sick and hospitalized from the vaccine with myocarditis and the doctor said if I got actual Covid I’d probably die. So my husband has masked up really thoroughly as well.
I had it only once, when I didn’t wear a mask to a work function. In like 22. My wife uses meds that makes her immunocompromised so she’s still masking. I’m not but probably should be. I do wear masks on planes and stuff
Still haven’t
Still haven’t had one with symptoms. Ftfy.
The chosen one
Meanwhile RFK Jr, the anti-vaxx nut job that is in charge of the HHS, is doing his damnedest to prevent the most recent version of the covid vaccine from making it to market.
Sorry, this is wrong. Right now it’s about 200 people per day
And that’s not worldwide. That’s just in the US.
Can’t have excess death if we just stop counting ‘taps temple’
doesn’t that say 5.4 daily?
Can you point me to where it mentions that 5.4 stat? I’m probably misreading a chart… I found this section which I think moldy_rice was reverencing:
you’re probably right
Y’all are so cordial, wtf
What the internet could be. Makes me smile.
Jesus have you read any Instagram comments sections? On anything almost, people are absolutely vile to each other. I didn’t get it the hostility and name calling is just astounding.
I bet the avg age is 97
I got long COVID and now my memory is like the guy from Memento.
Obviously I’m exaggerating, I have trouble remembering what I’ve done yesterday though
Why did you post this twice? /s
It’s surprising how many of the long COVID symptoms are common with ADHD. I will expand on this topic later but right now I have to find my car keys.
Between TikTok, ADHD, and COVID, I genuinely can’t tell what’s to blame nowadays.
Shigella is a gastrointestinal horror, striking more than 200 million people in the world each year and killing more than 200,000, mostly children
Yesterday I heard that in my country of the Netherlands, 4 people received euthanasia last year due to long covid. Euthanasia is doctor assisted suicide, and to receive it you must prove “unbearable suffering” with no hope of improvement. They weren’t super old either, the youngest was 51.
It can attack every system within our bodies, and even hurt our brains if we’re unlucky. We failed to contain and stop the spread. Now it’s mutated and will be with our species for the foreseeable future. Videos of those with really bad long covid are so sad. Physics Girl had her whole YouTube channel flipped and talked about it openly. Fascinatingly horrifying.
Yeah, that why it was first misdiagnosed as a respiratory illness and only months later it was discovered it’s a BLOOD illness.
We should call it the ‘blood flu’ … might make people realize it’s not a simple cold.
“It only kills old or unhealthy people. What’s the big deal? Why should I have to sacrifice for them?”
Bunch of ghouls won’t get it unless they’re impacted directly. Even then, they’d probably try to pivot.
It is now a part of the usual suspects. The cold, the flu, the poo
Colds don’t cause chronic illness and brain damage.
That’s not too much. If anything I’d consider other countries don’t report it, hard to believe the US is hit that much harder
hard to believe the US is hit that much harder
is it though, considering the us response?
Or lack thereof
It was said all along that it would go from being a pandemic to being endemic.
It’s still a pandemic
