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DetlefK

(16,423 posts) Mon Apr 20, 2020, 05:34 AM Apr 2020

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The current COVID-19 death-toll in the US is...

0.06 Iraq Wars

or

0.23 Afghanistan Wars

or

11.8 H1N1 Swine-Flu pandemics (2009)

or

13.5 9/11s

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16.9 Pearl Harbours

or

10,141 Benghazis

or

20,257 Ebola-outbeaks (2014)

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Benghazi_attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_cases_in_the_United_States

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The current COVID-19 death-toll in the US is... (Original Post) DetlefK Apr 2020 OP

Reporters should ask him now... duforsure Apr 2020 #1

They say he only said the "panic" was hoax. But he minimized virus & maintained ambiguity. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2020 #2

9/11 changed everything IronLionZion Apr 2020 #3

duforsure

(11,885 posts)

1. Reporters should ask him now...

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Mon Apr 20, 2020, 06:15 AM

Apr 2020

Do you still claim this virus is a hoax now? Why didn't the numbers go to zero like you claimed it would, and why he claimed it was 15 cases when it was really over 60 cases. Why has he weaponized help and this virus against states with democrat Governors.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,118 posts)

2. They say he only said the "panic" was hoax. But he minimized virus & maintained ambiguity. . . . nt

Reply to duforsure (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 20, 2020, 08:05 AM

Apr 2020

IronLionZion

(45,706 posts)

3. 9/11 changed everything

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Mon Apr 20, 2020, 08:46 AM

Apr 2020

will COVID-19 change anything?

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