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[–] exanime@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, how religious types completely overlook the contradiction is beyond me

  • If it's good for me, God directly did it

  • If it's bad, it's my/our fault somehow

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shouldn't they be thanking god because they're in heaven and we should be cursing him for not taking us?

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Personally, heaven sounds awful.

[–] Fortatech@lemy.lol 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean, seriously. Think about the music they’ll have in heaven.

It’s all going to be the same shit with the same 3 chords for eternity. It’d be like listening to the same 5 elevator songs for all of eternity.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This must be old, we were almost at 1.6m deaths by the end of 2020. Over 5 million by the end of 2021. Thanks God.

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, most of them were Republicans. God works in mysterious ways.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Well, by the end of 2021 there were a little under 800k deaths (edit: in the US), so the vast majority were not from the US, let alone Republican.

[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

1.6M by the end of 2020, but also 800k by the end of 2021.

Maybe God did some work after all?

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 months ago

Sorry I didn't make it clear. 800k is US only, other figures (including OP) are worldwide.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

2020 was still very much in the projection stage, the numbers got adjusted constantly until a good representation was agreed upon.

For example, one of the first "Covid-deaths" in my area was an 87 year-old man on palliative care for stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He died, they ran a post-mortem covid test on him, it came back positive. Later on, he got removed from covid death statistics as it was probably not covid that killed him.

[–] yumpsuit@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

The Economist (2022):The pandemic’s true death toll is between 19.2 and 36.3 million “With 95% confidence interval.”

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