That’s just in the U.S.! And you could run up the numbers a lot higher if you tried to account for Covid-involved deaths more comprehensively, especially long covid ones.

also A LOT of people that didn't die that are now disabled and trying to navigate their newly diminished capacity in a society with pretty much no safety net and lots of disabled that are trying to avoid covid and additional disability that are no longer as able to participate in the workforce

Acute phase deaths were just part of the equation.

and people in the replies here pissed about being asked to wear a mask indoors around other people. whether or not you KNOW you're sick. you can have it and no symptoms just put a fuckin n95 on, fuck sake. yes at a concert. the fuck.

so, idk if you know this, but peer pressure is the #1 absolute strongest predictor/influence on human behaviour so if no one is masking, then no one else will want to mask either you either make it a trend or you don't the govt rn is doin everything it can to make masks not a trend fyi

damn right so don't sell out to the Man. put on a mask. protect your people

it's legitimately amazing how much time i've gotten back from secondary infections whenever i'd get a cold because other people are so nasty months a year fr

It remains endlessly entertaining to me that we have a REALLY OBVIOUS memorial for the 3000 “brave souls” that died on 911, but there’s no jingo-hyped, highly-publicized memorial for the million plus Americans that died to Covid

It’s pretty wack yeah