why is this so fucking funny to me
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Everytime I hear "a 9/11 a day," I revert back to 13 and need to sit down for a moment til I can breathe again.
along the same vein...
As of May 7, 2020, 76,503 Americans are confirmed dead of COVID-19. To put this in perspective:
- 58, 209 Americans died in the Vietnam War (1961-1975)
- 54, 246 Americans died in the Korean War (1950-1953)
- 25, 000 Americans died in the American Revolution (1775-1783)
- 15, 000 Americans died in the War of 1812 (1812-1815)
- 13, 283 Americans died in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
- 4,576 Americans died in the Iraq War (2003-2011)
Also: The annual number of deaths in the USA from infectious disease is about 75,000. That’s twelve months’ worth of deaths. We are slightly over the annual death count for infectious disease after only four months and seven days.
Don’t kid yourself that this is normal. This is not even remotely normal.
As of January 23, 2022, the number is more than 865,000 Covid deaths in the USA alone. This is not normal. This is not ok.
Map of countries according to the COVID-19 fatality rate (number of deaths / number of total reported cases), Mar. 29.
I've been laughing at this for too long
1918 Flu: Please don't spit on the street
COVID-19: Please stop eating ass
We were warned.
Responding to a pandemic in the world’s wealthiest and most powerful nation:
PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU’RE APOLOGIZING FOR BECAUSE I’M COMPLETELY CONFUSED
The RNA vaccines approved for COVID-19 in the US both need to be distributed at extremely low temperatures. Like 40F lower than any other mass-distributed medicine.
It turns out the Dippin Dots company runs the only nationwide supply chain that’s ever operated at those temperatures. So all these big serious health orgs are consulting the expertise of, and even exploring renting equipment from, The Ice Cream of the Future™️.
WODJSKXNSIJXSKD
I beg your pardon
Please take a moment to appreciate 1988 and 2015 Pixar babies
what a time to be alive.
The concept of giant bombs and mutually assured destruction are so horrifying to me. We’ve.. fuck you can just barely comprehend the massive destruction of the nuclear bombs we have detonated and the fact that we have bombs now hundreds of times stronger than that is fucking horrifying. Theoretical bombs we haven’t even made yet, thousands of times stronger. I had… I used to do research with nuclear astrophysics for those that didn’t know, writing programs that model fusion processes in the cores of stars and then turning around and seeing nearly the same technology get used in labs designing types of thermonuclear bombs is horrifying. That Robert J. Oppenheimer speech, that quote from the bhagavad gita, now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. I see that and I know that’s how it’ll happen.
I remember in an astronomy lab I taught, we calculated our own Drake Equation for fun. That last variable, L. It’s the length of time a civilization has where they emit signals into space. How long a civilization lasts before being destroyed. Over multiple classes, with hundreds of students, the average number that was guessed was only a couple hundred years. We’re nearly halfway through that.
i wanna know who spent a once-in-a-lifetime event to take this horrifying aesthetically-pleasing picture