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Father (unvacced) died of Omicron in January. Self (2 Pfizer + 1 AstraZeneca), haven't had it yet.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor... claims there's currently > 1200 deaths per day from COVID in the USA. That's 450k a year at the present rate. If you want to compare, Influenza is around 50k a year. Cancer is 600k.

Seems wrong to me to be opening up with numbers still that high and likely to go higher as people start spreading it more.

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Sorry to hear about your father.

I agree we're letting our guard down far too soon and it looks like we'll will probably see another surge based on what's happening elsewhere around the world right now, and what we've already been through.

I live in a Deep Red county in rural Missouri. So far it's about 1 in 60 confirmed infected that die from it and around 220 that have died so far. Almost no one here wears masks and less than half are fully vaxxed and boosted.

They think they're "fighting for freedom" but they're really killing off their parents and grandparents. 220 dead so far.

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