04-07-2020, 06:31 AM
Rank War Years Deaths Deaths per day U.S. population in first year of war Deaths as percentage of population
1 American Civil War 1861–65 750,000 (est.)(U.S./Confederate)[86] 520 31,443,000 2.385% (1860)
2 World War II 1941–45 405,399 297 133,402,000 0.307% (1940)
3 World War I 1917–18 116,516 279 103,268,000 0.110% (1920)
4 Vietnam War 1961–75 58,209 11 179,323,175 0.032% (1970)
5 Korean War 1950–53 54,246 45 151,325,000 0.036% (1950)
6 American Revolutionary War 1775–83 25,000 11 2,500,000 1.00% (1780)
7 War of 1812 1812–15 15,000 15 8,000,000 0.207% (1810)
8 Mexican–American War 1846–48 13,283 29 21,406,000 0.057% (1850)
9 Iraq War 2003–2011 4,576 2 294,043,000 0.002% (2010)
10 Philippine–American War 1899–1902 4,196 3.8 72,129,001 0.006% (1900)
11 Spanish–American War 1898 2,246 8.9 62,022,250 0.004% (1890)
12 War in Afghanistan 2001–present 2,216 0.36 294,043,000 0.001% (2010)
Deaths from COVID-19 in America have surpassed military casualties of the US in all but eight wars. Within two or three days (barring miracles) the deaths will surpass those of all but six. Within a week, all but five.
OK. To have the same effect as a Crisis war on the American population one would need about 1.2 million (World War as a percentage of the US population), 3 million (Revolutionary War), or 6.9 million (American Civil War, Union and Confederate). As a share in the worst non-Crisis war, the War of 1812, about 600 million Americans would have to die of this horrid plague.
Considering that the USA got its independence from Britain in the Revolutionary War (1% loss of the population), abolished the dehumanizing institution of slavery in the Civil War (2.385%), and may have kept the Holocaust out of America during the Second World War (0.307% -- the number of American losses in WWII is much smaller than the American Jewish population, let alone the black population)... it is hard to see any divine purpose in this plague. So far I see only incompetence and negligence by upper leadership in America -- and you know what I mean by "upper leadership". Those are the three most lethal wars in America since 1775 for Americans, the three big Crisis wars.
1 American Civil War 1861–65 750,000 (est.)(U.S./Confederate)[86] 520 31,443,000 2.385% (1860)
2 World War II 1941–45 405,399 297 133,402,000 0.307% (1940)
3 World War I 1917–18 116,516 279 103,268,000 0.110% (1920)
4 Vietnam War 1961–75 58,209 11 179,323,175 0.032% (1970)
5 Korean War 1950–53 54,246 45 151,325,000 0.036% (1950)
6 American Revolutionary War 1775–83 25,000 11 2,500,000 1.00% (1780)
7 War of 1812 1812–15 15,000 15 8,000,000 0.207% (1810)
8 Mexican–American War 1846–48 13,283 29 21,406,000 0.057% (1850)
9 Iraq War 2003–2011 4,576 2 294,043,000 0.002% (2010)
10 Philippine–American War 1899–1902 4,196 3.8 72,129,001 0.006% (1900)
11 Spanish–American War 1898 2,246 8.9 62,022,250 0.004% (1890)
12 War in Afghanistan 2001–present 2,216 0.36 294,043,000 0.001% (2010)
Deaths from COVID-19 in America have surpassed military casualties of the US in all but eight wars. Within two or three days (barring miracles) the deaths will surpass those of all but six. Within a week, all but five.
OK. To have the same effect as a Crisis war on the American population one would need about 1.2 million (World War as a percentage of the US population), 3 million (Revolutionary War), or 6.9 million (American Civil War, Union and Confederate). As a share in the worst non-Crisis war, the War of 1812, about 600 million Americans would have to die of this horrid plague.
Considering that the USA got its independence from Britain in the Revolutionary War (1% loss of the population), abolished the dehumanizing institution of slavery in the Civil War (2.385%), and may have kept the Holocaust out of America during the Second World War (0.307% -- the number of American losses in WWII is much smaller than the American Jewish population, let alone the black population)... it is hard to see any divine purpose in this plague. So far I see only incompetence and negligence by upper leadership in America -- and you know what I mean by "upper leadership". Those are the three most lethal wars in America since 1775 for Americans, the three big Crisis wars.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.