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Old 1 April 2020, 10:10 AM   #4632
mountainjogger
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Originally Posted by gliderpilot View Post
Here is a silver lining. Strictly mathematically speaking, since no figure can be put on human suffering:

If I die tomorrow from COVID-19, I will not die next month from heart disease, next year from diabetes or the year after from pneumonia.

So the majority of COVID-19 fatalities inevitably reduce fatality rates of other diseases. Something "the numbers" typically fail to take into consideration...
And those that die in war, terrorist attacks, car accidents, airplane crashes industrial accidents, and other cuases don't die of diabetes either. I don't think of these things as silver linings. Nor do I view Covid-19 as one either.
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