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Topic"Really think we'll hit 200k Corona deaths? Only 19k in 4 months!"
Ngamer64
05/01/20 8:43:52 PM
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One Month Later... What post-2000 disaster will have the most wide-reaching impact?




Note: this is an update to CwebbMichSac's poll from March where COVID narrowly defeated 9/11 to be considered the biggest news story of our lifetimes. Let's see if we've changed our minds.

At the end of March, LightningStrikes argued that the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami (total death toll: 227,898) was a bigger deal internationally than 9/11. Mac Arrowny expressed disbelief that the impact of the coronavirus outbreak would ever reach that extent:

Do you really think we'll get to 200,000 Corona deaths? We're currently at only 19,000, including 3000 in China, after four months.

UPDATE - Only one month later, we've officially surpassed the tsunami's death total.

239,000 confirmed deaths
3,399,000 confirmed infections

(To be fair to Mac, it now appears the numbers coming out of China were extremely questionable.)

Latest country by county breakdown:


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