I don't think that's incredibly relevant to the core point. No one seems to give a shit about things that kill us every day in great quantity, but they do now about one particular thing.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert" <i...@avantwireless.com> To: af@af.afmug.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 9:51:39 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Hope? And in two months of covid-19 we will exceed the annual deaths of flu... It's going to be interesting to see what people say in a year when we are looking at 200,000 plus of covid and then what is going to be the comparison? On 4/29/20 7:31 AM, Lewis Bergman wrote: I don't think those are great comparisons but I think the Flu is. 66,000 died last year from the flu in the US and we still managed to walk around and shake hands. But hey, if you think you might die, stay home. On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 9:04 AM Cameron Crum < cc...@murcevilo.com > wrote: <blockquote> Why don't we put out graphs every year when we reach that many automobile deaths, or flu deaths, or heart disease deaths, or any other deaths in a specific category? Sensationalism and fear mongering rule the day. On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 8:59 PM Steve Jones < thatoneguyst...@gmail.com > wrote: <blockquote> Why is that surprising. How many people did we put in country throughout the war? There are 330 million here. If we had put 330 million through Vietnam, we would have "won" and lost even more. I keep seeing the Vietnam thing and then laugh at the thought that those present it also present statistics On Tue, Apr 28, 2020, 8:37 PM Bill Prince < part15...@gmail.com > wrote: <blockquote> Interesting that today, April 28, we surpassed in a couple of months the number of US personnel killed in the Vietnam war over the course of 20 years (1955-1975). bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 4/28/2020 6:46 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: <blockquote> image -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com </blockquote> -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com </blockquote> -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com </blockquote> -- Lewis Bergman 325-439-0533 Cell </blockquote> -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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