Grim milestone. The US has now passed 1 million Covid deaths.

[Celerity]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

[denbot]

1. .

[Demovictory9]

2. I was checking out that link everyday..back in 2020.

[Celerity]

3. Fri Mar 13, 2020, 06:22 AM (that is my time, CET)

https://democraticunderground.com/100213084685

[Aussie105]

4. Indeed.

We have been watching that particular number from a distant place, Australia.

Wife has a number of relatives over there. Some close relatives, like sister, others a bit further removed on the family tree.

So far, no deaths in the tree. But one million Americans weren't so lucky.

See if you can spot a difference -
Deaths per million population:

Australia = 224.
USA = 2,994.

I will let you suggest reasons why the numbers are so different. I have my own theories on that.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. ...

[DENVERPOPS]

6. With so many of them elderly

the Repubs are rejoicing. Look at all the medicare and SSI they won't have to be paying out.............

And they don't care about all their voters who croaked, because that will be less money they have to pay out for Food Stamps and Medicaid..........

[PatrickforB]

7. Trump is directly at fault for every single one of them because of

his corruption, power-mongering and incompetence.

He sure did accelerate our slide into 'shit-hole' status as a country, didn't he?