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Comment Re:Also: he's dead (Score 1) 42

How is this informative? Have you ever actually observed how those "flagpole worship" scenarios play out? It's not like groups of Satanists or Buddhists show up and interfere with their own little prayer circles. Usually what happens is that a teacher/coach participates on his/her own time, and the school gets sued. Or sometimes the school gets sued just for letting Christians use the flag pole at all.

Even the Muslims aren't really showing up in force at public places nationwide. All the Christian fear of the spread of Islam seems to have been a bit overblown. In the UK? Yeah maybe they have some cause for concern, but in the US? Nahhh. It's not like anyone wants to see Christianity pushed to the side to give other religions room to breathe. They just want to sue Christians wherever possible.

And what does any of this have to do with Ben Bova?

Comment Re: Well, ya? (Score 1) 196

Since you don't even know, I'll tell you:

3.7%

For people ages 51-60 in Italy during that First Wave, it was .7%
For people 41-50, .2%

And on down from there. Now go look at Sweden's numbers and do some comparisons. Sweden got off the hook with even lower mortality rates, despite doing practically nothing to halt the spread of the disease.

So "allowing the hospitals to overflow" was pretty ugly, but in the end, it didn't cause mortality rates to jump "WAY UP" except among certain age groups, who generally aren't that involved in the day-to-day operation of the economy. Y'know, people who could be locked down without inflicting trillions of dollars worth of damage to economies worldwide.

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