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<\/center><\/p>\nWe have lost 300,000 people to COVID-19 here in the USA and people still don’t seem to care, so I thought I’d do my Quick Takes on the scale of that number. All of these figures are from Wikipedia with the exception of take #5, which took some combing through Church statistics.<\/p>\n
(Seriously, you can either read me talking about stats or me talking about the state of Daniel’s bowels. Throwing out statistics seemed more merciful.)<\/p>\n
Also? I’ve seen idiots in my local area talking about how it’s just a cold or flu, and part of the problem with that line of thought is that you can get a mild case of COVID and end up later on with blood clots or heart conditions<\/a>. This even happens in young people and people with no history of either thing.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 1 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.<\/strong> The population is 300,286. That’s a lot of missing Steelers fans.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 2 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The city of St. Louis, Missouri.<\/strong> With a population of 300,576, that is a lot of people you won’t be meeting there.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 3 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Most of the population of Iceland.<\/strong> There would only be 36,713 people left in this Viking paradise.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 4 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Slightly more than the population of Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea.<\/strong> Our COVID death toll here in the States would wipe out the entire population of the capital plus 604 people.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 5 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Almost the entire Diocese of Toledo.<\/strong> There would only be 19,907 Catholics left in northwest Ohio! (My readership is mostly Catholic, so I thought I’d throw this figure out there.)<\/p>\n <\/a>— 6 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Slightly under half the population of the U.S. state of Vermont.<\/strong> The Green Mountain State has a population of 623,989. That means that there would be just about half as many Green Mountain Boys<\/a> there.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 7 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Slightly less than the number of people who work for Starbucks globally.<\/strong> Starbucks employs 346,000 people worldwide, so I might have a hard time finding someone to make my iced grande latt\u00e9 with one pump of vanilla!<\/p>\n For more Quick Takes, visit Kelly at This Ain’t The Lyceum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We have lost 300,000 people to COVID-19 here in the USA and people still don’t seem to care, so I thought I’d do my Quick Takes on the scale of that number. All of these figures are from Wikipedia with … Continue reading