Over 90% of those deaths are Americans.

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    15 hours ago

    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.

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        15 hours ago

        I fucked up a word, rhe math is correct for the unit in the headline and I corrected it so so fast my comment doesn’t even have an edit disclaimer.

        Calm down.

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          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%.