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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Sep 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Joe Calvello

    This is a sobering thought. The scale of loss is beyond our comprehension.https://twitter.com/the_vello/status/1304404740688826368 …

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    Joe Calvello @the_vello
    In the last four months more Americans have died than any other four month span in American history.
    12:37 PM - 11 Sep 2020
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      1. mpp75214‏ @mpp75214 11 Sep 2020
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        I can comprehend quite a bit

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      2. Ola Andersson  🖋 📏 📐 🏗 🏠‏ @NattyNeverWeary 11 Sep 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Since there are more people in the US now than ever, this is to be expected under any circumstances.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Sep 2020
        Replying to @NattyNeverWeary

        Nope. Try again.

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      2. Chris Golding‏ @_Chris_Golding_ 11 Sep 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        When making these type of comparisons, it's important to keep in mind how much larger the population is today than it was even in lived memory. We have double the population of the 1950s, for example. Which isn't to minimize how unnecessary and awful the last 6 months are.

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      2. Ken  🌻 🇭🇰 🗽‏ @kendroiddddd 11 Sep 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet @EmmMacfarlane

        It's not how many but how many could have been prevented. You don't expect the death toll would be 0 under a pandemic, do you?

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      3. Ken  🌻 🇭🇰 🗽‏ @kendroiddddd 11 Sep 2020
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        https://youtu.be/vSYPwX4NPg4 

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      1. David Kolek‏ @davidkolek 11 Sep 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Ah yes, but the conservatives keep reminding us that it's all just old and sick people, so who cares, right?

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      1. (((Rich Stein))) ☮Stay safe 😷 💉, optimistic, kind 🌞‏ @RunRichRun 11 Sep 2020
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        (((Rich Stein))) ☮Stay safe 😷 💉, optimistic, kind 🌞 Retweeted Cory Doctorow

        Yet we seem, as a society, to have normalized this and accepted it. #MoreSadness The always good @edyong209 and tl;dr from @doctorowhttps://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1304444126847332352 …

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        Cory DoctorowVerified account @doctorow
        More than 200k Americans have died of covid - about 70 9/11s, with no end in sight. Indeed, things are getting worse, as the US enters a "Pandemic Spiral," as @edyong209 writes in @TheAtlantic. Yong identifies 9 factors driving the spiral: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/pandemic-intuition-nightmare-spiral-winter/616204/ … 1/ pic.twitter.com/mjud3XPJS8
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      1. Nichol Brummer 🐰 🍨 🍨‏ @Twundit 11 Sep 2020
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        Actually .. isn't that what you expect to get with a consistently growing population. All of the time?

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