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I personally find it astonishing that we are accepting >100 deaths per day.

Who is we? In the UK, for example, the baseline expected death rate is around 2000 per day. Sure, adding another 500 to that is a big deal, but it is maybe not as big a deal as everyone seems to think it is.

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(German here. 100 deaths per day is more than any all terror deaths over the last couple of years)

The death toll due to covid is already is visible on all averaged yearly death per day/week charts and we have not even gotten to 1% of population having gotten the disease. That is a big deal.

> The death toll due to covid is already is visible on all averaged yearly death per day/week charts and we have not even gotten to 1% of population having gotten the disease. That is a big deal.

Only when one year is taken into account. How about decade averages? I bet tobacco is #1 on the list and covid does not even make top 10

Let's keep moving those goalposts 'til the other team can't even see the goal anymore!

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