Idk why I keep checking the covid death toll on the CDC website. I know that 200,000 deaths will be reached soon, and nothing will happen. It will make absolutely no difference, and yet I keep checking. Can anyone make sense of this?

    • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah, I don't know why the Worldometer and CDC numbers don't match. I've been using the CDC numbers instead, pretty arbitrarily. But then the question remains, why do I feel like I need to keep checking for when that first 1 rolls over to a 2? Nothing will change, we'll go on as we've been doing as people keep on dying, but for some reason I feel like I need to see it?

      • artangels [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        does cdc count puerto rican numbers? that wouldn't explain the entire discrepancy but it would explain some.

        • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          I just checked and yeah, it includes all the US territories.