Alabama Had More Deaths Than Births in 2020

bigmig19 wrote:

Hey did you here Miss. and SC have poor health and poor education!

You write like you were educated in Mississippi.

lidoreal wrote:

Let people live the way they choose to. Why are liberals so judgmental? They claim to be open minded. They have sympathy for gay people who die from Aids but they have no sympathy for people who die from Covid. They have sympathy for people who die from suicide or drug overdose also. We should feel the same for everyone who dies. Stop being judgmental of the dead. It is disgusting.

Yep.

3Mason wrote:

Big Kock wrote:

Probably because family reunions were not being held due to COVID.

/thread

Almost on par with homosexuality?

2600 bro wrote:

Let it Rupp wrote:

Just like we mourn the deaths caused by failed flu mitigation?

The classic "only covid deaths are sad" argument.

Yes we should work to eliminate all preventable deaths.

Comparing flu and COVID deaths stopped being viable last summer. We are now at 10X the worst flu season ever.

I don't get your point. "Mass death is actually ok?"

Flu and covid deaths are actually very comparable since the victims are dead regardless of which disease. When all this blows over I fully expect you to be on these boards ranting at the antivaxxers killing people during flu season, and the politicians in charge for their "failed flu mitigation strategies."

Let it Rupp wrote:

2600 bro wrote:

Yes we should work to eliminate all preventable deaths.

Comparing flu and COVID deaths stopped being viable last summer. We are now at 10X the worst flu season ever.

I don't get your point. "Mass death is actually ok?"

Flu and covid deaths are actually very comparable since the victims are dead regardless of which disease. When all this blows over I fully expect you to be on these boards ranting at the antivaxxers killing people during flu season, and the politicians in charge for their "failed flu mitigation strategies."

I honestly cannot tell if you are trolling.

Flu has a defined risk domain that we, as a society, have accepted. 10-30k deaths a year in the US with minimal mitigation. Hopefully with a universal flu vaccine this can be significantly decreased.

COVID is going to kill 800k+ at the current rate in ~2 years. It's much more contagious and and deadly than flu so mitigation is necessary to prevent 1.5m+ deaths (or 50 years of flu deaths).

I am simply lost with your inane comparison. Feel free to explain more.

The irony of this post is fantastic.

Innumerate much? wrote:

Let it Rupp wrote:

There was a disease that spread and killed. . . 0.03% of the population.

Three percent of the U.S. population would be ~10 million; 0.3 percent would be ~1 million; 0.03% would be ~100,000.

I have news: The number of American Covid dead is approaching SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND. So your "stat" is off by a factor of about seven.

It's one thing to be bad with arithmetic (shucks, we're all bad with something or other); it's another thing to ADVERTISE your ignorance.

Hate to burst your bubble, but I was talking about Alabama specifically as this thread is about Alabama. I'll give you credit though, my decimal was one off - it should be 0.3%, but my attitudes remain unchanged.

Premature death is not something that makes me happy, but I'm not going to be angry at everybody else for not wanting to crash the economy over a pandemic this small nor am I going to be angry at the unvaccinated that are vulnerable or lack natural immunity for risking their own lives. If anything, I would be focusing my anger at the idiotic lab workers who let this thing escape.

Only off by a factor of 10. Why would facts matter to a righty?

Runningart2004 wrote:

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/20/1038950564/alabama-deaths-births-2020-coronavirus-surge-vaccination-rate

Guess I should have added....since reading a link can be troublesome for some.....

Alabama reported more deaths than births for the first time in HISTORY.

Yes natural population growth is pretty small and sometimes even negative in certain areas while immigration makes up a large part of population growth in developed countries.

Also, yes vaccination % among minorities is lower than non-minorities....but since there are MORE non-Hispanic Whites in this country.....at least for another 20-30 years....

Alan

Mass death crashes the economy whether you want it to or not.

Sweden had a larger GDP crash than its neighbors.

Other people enjoy their life and loved ones (unlike you?) and will avoid many activities to preserve those things.

You act like people would’ve just gone about life as normal.

I would love to be as senile and clueless as you. Life must be fun?

Medical errors still kill far more than "covid"

fax wrote:

Over half the COVID deaths in Alabama were African-American though only about 25 percent of the population.

Everybody still cheering?

So much for this stereotype...

Shows the need for more immigration to provide workers to care for an increasingly elderly and sick population. Now, where are all those Haitians?

Shrinkage Advocate wrote:

A reduction of inhabitants should not be considered a problem as the overpopulation of the world has created much turmoil and crisis. Throughout history, factors such as war, sub-par living conditions, and a lack of medical knowledge managed to keep world population growth under control. Today's advanced technology has allowed people to live longer and less difficult lives which in turn has brought about an atmosphere of outlandish affluence and greed.

China uses restrictions in an effort to limit population growth while the state of Alabama allowed a natural occurrence to manage its growth. We should be thankful for both approaches.

While studying History of Economics, you some how got stuck on Malthusian Economics. Farmers certainly in U.S. and also farmers in many wealthy nations are subsidized to produce Below Equilibrium. Farmers can feed far more people than farmers are feeding today. World is not overpopulated.