• JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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      1 year ago

      they always meant per-capita. 0.00001% of the population or whatever

      if you have 100 people in some group and one of them dies that's like 100 9/11s to that group.

      or something. i'm tired and high so maybe don't take those numbers literally.

      • hotcouchguy [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        My grandma died, so i basically suffered 450,000 grandparent 9/11s

          • hotcouchguy [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I've declared that cancer, dementia, heart disease, and stroke are the new axis of evil!

            She actually died in a car crash but since our family owns a series of car dealerships I didn't want to get into all that.

        • Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          By the way, checked the math, and even if that was your last grandparent, 100% of the population would be 94,882 9/11s.

          Liberals would still use that 450,000 number anyways though

      • Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        The actual numbers are worse than you thought:

        2,996 deaths out of approx. 284,267,319 Americans = 0.00105%

        1 death out of 100 people = 1%

        This comes out to 948.8 9/11s