# Am I missing something here? (re: reopening of bars, etc... now) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [October 6, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-missing-something-here-re-reopening-of-bars-etc-now/922356 "2020-10-06T17:27:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 662
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-missing-something-here-re-reopening-of-bars-etc-now/922356/662 "2020-11-20T01:57:27Z")
> [@bump](#): > > My point was that in pretty much any reckoning, this is a BIG deal. Huge. **As in, on the same scale of deaths as WWII** , a war that we’ve had dozens, if not hundreds of movies and TV shows made about it, similar numbers of war memorials, and whose aftereffects are still resonating to this day. My bold. Actually, according to the numbers I’ve run, it’s a lot worse than WW2. In just under nine months, the US has exceeded the number of combat deaths in WW2 - deaths occurring over 44 months. This is a devastating national emergency, and it’s being treated so cavalierly…infuriating. > [@Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2020 Breaking News](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-breaking-news/847758/5445): > > Running some numbers - same as I did before, really. I worked up these numbers yesterday evening my time. Figures are from [worldometer.com](http://worldometer.com) (from yesterday) for COVID-19 deaths in the US, starting with the first confirmed death on February 29 - that I could find, anyway. Numbers for combat deaths in WW2, and population of the US as of 1940 and 2020 taken from Wikipedia. For those curious, the population of the US increased by about 2.5 times. So. Since Feb 29, a period of 257 days, 247,938 … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-missing-something-here-re-reopening-of-bars-etc-now/922356)._