Kelly, please let others do the math. The way you related those numbers are extremely misleading. Fernapple and Barjoe did a decent job sorting through the miscalculations and inaccurate correlations.

I can understand how a lot of people want to be supportive of this comment due to it's political message. For them, please don't let your desire to agree with a political commentary cloud your judgment. This is an example of how insidious misinformation is. It can start with people who are your friends.

It bares repeating for those sorting by Newest...

Glad to see another Green truth teller ....the blueREDS redBLUES duopoly is killing us only WWW.HOWIEHAWKINS.US will solve the problems peace through Green jobs pure water clean air organic food safe housing free healthcare by nationalizing all hospitals eliminating profiteering insurance scams SAVING MONEY not costing more money like BidenS and TrumpOLINI ARE THE PROBLEM vote them out Lisa Savage in Maine US SENATOR MADELYN HOFFMAN New Jersey US Senator and LibertarianS are worse ending what few good regulations there are remaining to slow down polluters

You're citing cancer stats probability of occurring in a lifetime window. Conflating that to stats that are incomplete, certain to increase geometrically at the end of the event. So your attempt to diminish the significance of the pandemic, which in a short period of time will kill .1% of a population of 320 million. That's a quite likely figure in the end of 320K people. Perhaps 10 million survivors many of whom could have long term consequences which could affect their life expectancy. Realize the timeframe for these losses would be around 1 year. I find your argument to be woefully wrong. The fact that this is not an extinction event doesn't diminish. Our response to it, or lack of response of a future, far worse pandemic could be that extinction. The fact that United States response had left us with astronomical numbers in contrast to other countries should be frightening to any objective observer. It exposes a horrendous job by our central government to whom blame should lie wholly on this terrible outcome. Ultimately it's in the eye of the beholder who the subject is that's intimately responsible here. We know where the buck stops.

I’m open to venting… I think we’re all noticing how few this virus is actually taking out, unless it’s a parent or grandparent.. So far, it appears far less virulent than the pandemic of a century ago. Should we ignore it? ..let it continue to take out the morbidly obease, agid, or immunocompromised..? I suppose here in the USA, we’re doing just that..

Hey, you don’t need school, or college. You can live in the hills with almost no education. No joke, I’m surrounded by them. Develop a ‘handyman skill,’ or learn some basic trade, get on with someone willing to teach you how to repair stuff that’s gonna be around awhile. If you can read, you might even pass a certification test of sorts. But plan to prettymuch do that for the rest of your life.. No shame.

Please don’t resent those having sought more, though. The ones designing ‘the stuff’ that’ll help extend your life or repair you after the accident.. Or, keep your teeth in working order… College is too expensive, and overrated, to me.. My ‘kids’ thought differently … one’s now making seven times as much as I am… Your choice.

The meme seems more a word game than worthwhile ..advice, or, all that thought provoking.. ‘America’ is a hodgepodge of various generations having fled their nations of birth in order to consume and compete for the seemingly endless resources of a ‘virgin contenant.’ With those resources nearly gone, it’s become a hodgepodge of angry, competitive, poorly regulated or restrained individuals in need of becoming one nation, period