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Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
Sun May 24, 2020, 08:44 PM May 2020

Some 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.

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Some of the recent Christofascist propaganda my Trumper extended family is posting on FB. (Original Post) Thomas Hurt May 2020 OP
Unless god came down from heaven SCantiGOP May 2020 #1
Considering that 40%-60% of conceptions end in miscarriage (depending on who's counting how) catrose May 2020 #2
Right. The point is SCantiGOP May 2020 #9
First one I looked up was HIV cause I figured it was bullshit ... mr_lebowski May 2020 #3
And HIV totals could be zero SCantiGOP May 2020 #10
Even if the numbers were correct Hav May 2020 #4
Considering how stale that COVID-19 number is, I don't have much faith in the other #'s. Girard442 May 2020 #5
Abortions don't count as deaths. roamer65 May 2020 #6
I had a lesson from a priest SCantiGOP May 2020 #11
So I have killed trillions. roamer65 May 2020 #13
Another clue it is complete bogus made-up junk: Number are precise down to single digits Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #7
FYIL Here is some data with a chart UncleNoel May 2020 #8
Global deaths from CV19 are now at 350,000. milestogo May 2020 #12

SCantiGOP

(13,865 posts)
1. Unless god came down from heaven
Sun May 24, 2020, 08:59 PM
May 2020

There is no way anyone could know what the abortion number is.
Does it include miscarriages? I guess you could label them “god’s 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 people’s 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)
2. Considering that 40%-60% of conceptions end in miscarriage (depending on who's counting how)
Sun May 24, 2020, 09:02 PM
May 2020

and they never shed a tear, gosh, it's almost like "babies" aren't the point.

SCantiGOP

(13,865 posts)
9. Right. The point is
Sun May 24, 2020, 11:18 PM
May 2020

control of the woman’s body, as dictated by the Bible.
As someone once said, if men got pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
3. First one I looked up was HIV cause I figured it was bullshit ...
Sun May 24, 2020, 09:06 PM
May 2020

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)
10. And HIV totals could be zero
Sun May 24, 2020, 11:22 PM
May 2020

If we had reasonable healthcare in the entire world.
I know that would wreck everyone’s 401(k), but it would very easy if you removed the profit from insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

Hav

(5,969 posts)
4. Even if the numbers were correct
Sun May 24, 2020, 09:14 PM
May 2020

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.

roamer65

(36,744 posts)
6. Abortions don't count as deaths.
Sun May 24, 2020, 09:53 PM
May 2020

It’s birth and population control.

That’s what I would tell them, but I don’t do FB.

Suckerberg is a vile man.

SCantiGOP

(13,865 posts)
11. I had a lesson from a priest
Sun May 24, 2020, 11:25 PM
May 2020

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.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,957 posts)
7. Another clue it is complete bogus made-up junk: Number are precise down to single digits
Sun May 24, 2020, 09:54 PM
May 2020

Further, categories are confounded: Smoking, alcohol, and cancer.

Total bullshit.

UncleNoel

(864 posts)
8. FYIL Here is some data with a chart
Sun May 24, 2020, 10:46 PM
May 2020
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/05/how-many-people-die-each-day-covid-19-coronavirus/

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?

Here’s how many people die each day on average, sorted by cause:

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