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TEN TIMES MORE PEOPLE DIE FROM SUICIDE THAN COVID-19

                              From Worldometer (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):

        DAY  USA  WORLD   Brazil    India    South Africa

June     9    1093     4732         1185        246       82
July    22     1205     7128         1293      1120     572
Aug    12     1504     6556        1242        835     130
Sept     9     1208      6222       1136       1168       82
Oct     21     1225      6849         571        703       85
Nov    25      2304    12025        620        518      118
Dec    30      3880    14748       1224       299      465
Jan     14       4142     15512        1151        189      712              
Feb      3       4005    14265       1209       107      398
Mar     2        1989      9490        1726       110      194
April   6          906     11787         4211       631       37
May    4         853     13667         3025     3786      59 
June   1         287    10637         2346      3205       95
 July   7          251      8440        1595        817      411
Aug    4          656    10120        1118         532     423 
Sept   1        1480    10470          703        505      235
          8        1700      9836          250        339     253
        14        1934      9001          709        281      300
        22       2228      9326          839        279      124
        29        2190      8859         643        309      108
Oct    5        1811       7495          686        285     103
          6        2102       8255         543        315       59
        12        1819       7544         201        249        37 
        19        2005      7528         401        160        80 
        26        1451       7535         409        584       53
        27       1594       8671         433        734        62 
Nov   3        1436       7830        186        458        23
        10        1493      8366         264        362        48
        17        1416       8440         374        470         11
        24        1594      8270         176        396        22
        25         306      7154          281        488       114

Summary:
  • How can the U.S. possibly drop from 1594 new deaths/day to 306 in one day?  If this is true, we would now be #4 to #1 Russia with 1238, #2 India with 488 and #3 Germany with 315.
  • Even more amazing, in new cases at 27,187 yesterday, we would be #6 behind:
    • #1  Germany  76,132
    • #2  UK  46,991
    • #3  Russia  33,796
    • #4  France  33,464
    • #5  Poland  28,187
    • #7  Turkey  24,467
    • #8  Belgium  23,350
    • #9  Netherlands 22,184
  • The particularly worrisome development is the appearance of a new strain, known as B.1.1.529, in South Africa, soon to get a Greek-letter by the World Health Organization.
    • Stock markets around the world sunk with this bit of bad news.
    • Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Namibia have also been affected.
    • If this strain spreads throughout Africa, that would prolong the pandemic for a very long time, for this region has very low vaccination rates, minimal hospitalization capability and a large population capable of being infected.
    • That matter of richer nations getting boosted versus expanding vaccinations to developing nations becomes all too real.
    • The early analysis is that this new variation is more transmissible than Delta, and that vaccines might be compromised.
  • So far, the World has suffered from more than a quarter billion (260,276,570) cases and more than five million (5,199,130) deaths.  
    • The odds of your dying from COVID-10 so far are around 1 in 1500.
    • The odds of your dying this year are 1 in 105.  
      • Of course, as in COVID, the younger you are, the less chance of your death.
      • In other words, if you are 21 years old, these odds of living this next year improve to 1 in 823.
      • If you are 80 years old, the odds are 1 in 18.
      • If 100 years old, the odds are around 1 in 3.
    • Each year 1.35 million die from traffic accidents, which means one chance in 5763 for you/year.
      • Comparing this number with COVID means you need to divide that 1500 by around 1.75 to bring this figure to an annual basis.
      • Thus, on an annual average, your chances of dying from COVID are around one in 857.
    • Here are your odds of dying from:
      • Heart disease  1 in 6
      • Cancer  1 in 7
      • Chronic respiratory disease  1 in 27
      • Suicide  1 in 88
      • Opioid overdose  1 in 92
      • Fall  1 in 106
      • Motor-vehicle crash  1 in 107
      • COVID-19  1 in 857
      • Drowning  1 in 1,128
      • Choking on food  1 in 2,535
      • Bicyclist  1 in 3,825
      • Gun discharge  1 in 8,248
      • Bee/insect sting  1 in 60,000
      • Dog attack  1 in 86,781
      • Lightning  1 in 138,849
      • Passenger on train or plane:  too low to calculate.
In short, feel safe on a train or plane, but consider that ten times more people die annually from suicide than from COVID-19 (on an annual pandemic basis).  Eight times more people die from traffic accidents than COVID-19.


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