Jamie Marchi is fat
and ret
arded. The OP wasn't much better.
Here's where this started:
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They're talking about
corona virus mortality, not school shootings, and the 2-3% that they mentioned is an estimated increase in the total mortality from the virus... meaning, if the overall death toll from the virus ended up being 100,000 deaths nationwide (it's currently just over 46,000), opening the schools now might increase that by 2 or 3 thousand. So just to be clear... nobody, at any point, was suggesting that 2-3%
of school children (of whom there are ~50 million) might die.
What's more, though, is that even if they get infected, children tend to have very mild cases. The kids would mostly just be carriers; the overwhelming majority of those additional deaths would be
adults... bus drivers, school staff, parents, etc. So there's no reason to think that any statistically significant number of children would die at all. The death toll would still mostly be confined to the at-risk population... older people and people with illnesses that create additional risk factors.
So anyway, then this moron retweeted it, adding her hot take: those eebil gun-totin' Fox-News-watchin' rebuplicans want children to
die...
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Next Jamie comes along and sees "guns" and "kids" in the same 240 characters and just assumes we're talking about school shootings. So of course she has to chime in with, "they need kids to start killing each other again so that people will buy more guns." Way to go, Jamie. Very tastefully said.
(Aside, how does she even think that school shootings lead to increased gun sales? I could see her thinking it'd work the other way around, but... ah, nevermind; she's much too ret
arded for me to bother trying to figure that out.)
So the best I can tell, Jamie
was the first person to bring up school shootings, and what's more, as far as I can tell,
none of them understood what the original statement was actually saying. The ret
arded game of telephone they played just got further and further from what was originally said.
Thank you for listening to my TED talk.
P.S. Jamie Marchi is
Fat, and I would not have sex with her.