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Current US deaths is 815k, and increasing steadilly. At this rate it will hit 1Mdeath by the end of April

Excess deaths are over 1m. See https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...

There is no way to know if those deaths were because or with Covid-19.

Also correlation doesn't mean causation. Confinement caused a lot of hardships on people. Hell, fentanyl alone kills hundred of thousands each year, that's not even counting alcohol, other drugs, stress and solitude.

The hypocrisy is astounding. I don’t disagree with the numbers above, but at the same time you are absolutely right - yet downvoted and grayed out. Reminds me of Twitter and Reddit.

On Reddit / Twitter I would be shadow banned and downvoted by bots and bought accounts.

HN really is a sanctuary IMO.

You shifted the goal post, you claimed that it's nowhere near one MegaDeath (1 million deaths) despite it being fairly close, then you pivoted to "those aren't really covid deaths".

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