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[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I can. Cut that population.

[–]Alan_Crowe 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Global population is around seven billion 7000000000.

Life expectancy is traditionally seventy years, 70.

Dividing, we expect about a hundred million deaths every year. With fifty weeks a year, that is two million a week.

Which makes me wonder. Is 15000 a week just badge engineering. Old people are seldom said to die "of old age". There is a straw that breaks the camels back and ends up on the death certificate. It doesn't require much to gin up 15000 COVID deaths from two million, don't say "just old" deaths.

[–]raven9 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's actually just a few months away from being 8 billion.