• @Dave@lemmy.nz
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    8818 days ago

    This must be old, we were almost at 1.6m deaths by the end of 2020. Over 5 million by the end of 2021. Thanks God.

    • @yeahiknow3
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      1918 days ago

      To be fair, most of them were Republicans. God works in mysterious ways.

      • @Dave@lemmy.nz
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        17 days ago

        Well, by the end of 2021 there were a little under 800k deaths (edit: in the US), so the vast majority were not from the US, let alone Republican.

        • @dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
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          317 days ago

          1.6M by the end of 2020, but also 800k by the end of 2021.

          Maybe God did some work after all?

          • @Dave@lemmy.nz
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            317 days ago

            Sorry I didn’t make it clear. 800k is US only, other figures (including OP) are worldwide.

          • Karyoplasma
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            317 days ago

            2020 was still very much in the projection stage, the numbers got adjusted constantly until a good representation was agreed upon.

            For example, one of the first “Covid-deaths” in my area was an 87 year-old man on palliative care for stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He died, they ran a post-mortem covid test on him, it came back positive. Later on, he got removed from covid death statistics as it was probably not covid that killed him.

      • @kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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        116 days ago

        most of them were Republicans.

        I wonder if that will make a noticeable impact on the 2024 election?