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at140

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11. I believe in proportions
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 09:01 PM
Jan 2020

More people die by orders of magnitude from gun violence, fatal car crashes, smoking, excessive drinking, drug overdoses, opioid addiction etc which are all man made causes. We should be focused on those deaths, a lot of which are avoidable and not get bent out of shape by 1 or 2 persons in United States got infected by contact with infected people in China. We have limited resources, national spending is Trillion dollars more than national income, so focus our resources on the bigger problems.

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