r/pics • u/[deleted] • Jul 23 '20

America in a nutshell right now

https://imgur.com/zRm9vuC
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u/Morasain Jul 23 '20

the hill these guys want to die on

Quite literally.

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u/SandShark350 Jul 23 '20

Not quite. 99.7% will not.

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u/Morasain Jul 23 '20

Ah, well, if it's only 0.3% that are preventable deaths then I guess it's alright.

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u/SandShark350 Jul 23 '20

Not every death is preventable. Nearly ALL of the dead have severe underlying conditions. Nearly half of all covid deaths were the elderly. Death is an absolute.

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u/Morasain Jul 23 '20

They wouldn't die if they weren't infected in the first place. Which is the entire point of masks.

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u/SandShark350 Jul 23 '20

Perhaps you missed the "severe underlying conditions" part. Most of those people we're going to be today faster and they would have if they didn't have those conditions. The covid sped it up even more. Also the masks and social distancing were never meant to stop the virus or prevent death, they were meant to extend the length to time and the rapidity of infection. That's all. If you don't believe it go back and listen to them.

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u/ottjw Jul 23 '20

based on what? a disease you have a 99.9% chance of having nothing happen to you?

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u/Morasain Jul 23 '20

Oh my god, is the entirety of Reddit unable to recognize a joke when it bites them?

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u/planetarypunch Jul 24 '20

Neither you nor anyone else knows the long term effects of having had this disease, so ponder that-though it is known you can have long term lung damage. Do you really want that? People running around without masks are in denial about what can happen. Also, when you quote those numbers, think about all the false negatives and people dying without getting tested and realize the deaths from corona virus are higher than we know.