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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSome of the recent Christofascist propaganda my Trumper extended family is posting on FB.
Worldwide Deaths Jan 1 - April 1 2020
CV 19 46,438
Seasonal Flu 121,993
Malaria 246,121
Suicide 269,076
Traffic Fatalities 338,715
HIV 421,808
Alcohol - 627,571
Smoking - 1,254,352
Cancer - 2,050,730
Hunger 2.806,314
Abortion 10,665,130
Numbers from Lifeline Children's Services. The only number they care about is the last one and it is probably made up.
The cousins swallow this whole without a thought.
SCantiGOP
(13,865 posts)There is no way anyone could know what the abortion number is.
Does it include miscarriages? I guess you could label them gods little spiteful abortions.
I have some in-laws that are this bad. My son-in-law, who votes Dem or he would be permanently on the couch and never get to sleep next to my daughter, has a crazy mother. She may not realize that we can see her comments on other peoples Twitter, where she recently liked a picture of Obama with the caption His plan was to destroy America and make you convert to Islam, but our Christian God sent Donald Trump to save America.
Even if I were an evangelical, I would be afraid that crossed the line to blasphemy.
catrose
(5,059 posts)and they never shed a tear, gosh, it's almost like "babies" aren't the point.
SCantiGOP
(13,865 posts)control of the womans body, as dictated by the Bible.
As someone once said, if men got pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)The WHO say an ESTIMATED 770K people died of HIV-related illness in 2018 worldwide, and the numbers are falling not going up.
EXTREMELY unlikely that 400K+ died of it in 3 months this year.
Also, no reputable outfit would put out a number with 'HIV' as the cause of death. HIV isn't what kills people. It's other diseases that attack you when you're infected.
SCantiGOP
(13,865 posts)If we had reasonable healthcare in the entire world.
I know that would wreck everyones 401(k), but it would very easy if you removed the profit from insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
Hav
(5,969 posts)and the Corona numbers are obviously old and compared to yearly numbers which is dishonest, they are missing the crucial point. We actively try to combat every one of those items on that list. We don't just look away or say "Freedom!" and let it run its course. We strive to make cars safer, we take precautions to prevent contracting diseases, we try to find cures or identify behavior that might lead to certain diseases. We don't go the intellectually and morally bankrupt way and say why bother because of other things that cost lives in our views.
If they don't want to follow guidelines regarding Covid, ask them why they don't get drunk, get in a car and drive in the wrong lane without seatbelts.
Girard442
(6,065 posts)roamer65
(36,744 posts)Its birth and population control.
Thats what I would tell them, but I dont do FB.
Suckerberg is a vile man.
SCantiGOP
(13,865 posts)In Catholic School about 5th grade who said that each act of masturbation killed millions of potential Catholics, so god considered it murder.
I guess wet dreams were just involuntary manslaughter.
roamer65
(36,744 posts)LOL.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,957 posts)Further, categories are confounded: Smoking, alcohol, and cancer.
Total bullshit.
UncleNoel
(864 posts)Worldwide deaths by cause
Nearly 150,000 people die per day worldwide, based on the latest comprehensive research published in 2017. Which diseases are the most deadly, and how many lives do they take per day?
Heres how many people die each day on average, sorted by cause:
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Lots of stinkin' thinkin' going on with the rest.