The smoking comparison is interesting.
QuoteA pandemic's end has less to do with meeting certain measurements, and more to do with a collective perception of the disease.
In 2020, Covid killed 345,323
Heart disease killed 690,882
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7014e1.htm?s_cid=mm7014e1_w
What's crazy, is that the heart disease map bears more than a passing similarity to the Covid vaccination map
https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm
It's all a matter of what we consider normal. As the quip made famous by Marshall MacLuhan goes: "I don't know who discovered water, but I'm certain it wasn't a fish."
QuoteIn 2020, Covid killed 345,323
Heart disease killed 690,882
Wow 3rd biggest killer. Its just new. Put a lot into perspective. Including the new world order of short supply.
Quote from: Rupert on November 27, 2021, 07:34:20 AM
Wow 3rd biggest killer.
Wow because that's higher or lower than you thought? Or just wow because wow that's a lot of people?
Both, but"only" 3rd biggest is the biggest part for me.
One of the issues I see visiting old folk in the UK, is the numbers who have procedures delayed or cancelled. So those numbers will not be simple.
But they are stark. I would not share them with a conspiracy theorist I know :)