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> why haven't we been in lockdown every year until this deadly scourge has been exterminated?

Probably because 700k/year is globally, while the US alone has suffered 100k deaths in 3 months.




currently ~350K global deaths for covid, in 6 months, since december.


In about 3 months. For a disease that was growing exponentially before action was taken and even now is only just stopped growing in countries where action was taken.

And no mosquito outbreak has caused entire hospital systems to collapse in various parts of the world.




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