[ExI] by tomorrow, more Americans will have died of COVID-19 than in WWI

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Jun 11, 2020, at 6:30 PM, Robert G. Kennedy III, PE via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
> As I write this tonight, C19's toll is 115+K.
> US fatalities in Europe (combat AND non-combat) in WWI: 116,708.
> Which I expect us to hit by tomorrow night.
> 
> My forecast in late April was off by six weeks.  Sorry 'bout that, but these curves are only going to get more squirrelly as time goes on.  It should sober you that less than 1% of the population is known to have been infected.
> 
> K3

More than half of the US WW1 deaths were due to influenza. Not that that alters your point.

Regards,

Dan
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