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PoindexterOglethorpe

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7. Also look at the deaths per million of population.

Reply to SunSeeker (Original post)

Mon Aug 17, 2020, 06:39 AM

Aug 2020

That's far more revealing than simply raw death rates.

Give India a few more months. It's going to be a blood bath there that will make the U.S. look like nothing. And for all of the justified complaints about how Trump didn't take this seriously, the U.S. does not have the very worst death rate out there.

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