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DragonEnergy2 3 points ago +3 / -0
  1. Death rate graph is 3 yearly not 1 year intervals, 2) 2020 shows bigger spike than WW2!, 3) CDC is source, 4) LoL.
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duckduck [S] 2 points ago +2 / -0

No it is 1 year intervals, but the x axis label formatting wouldn't list every year. It is 1 year intervals, I made the chart. I was also surprised there are no spikes during war years.

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muslimporn 2 points ago +2 / -0

As far as death tolls go the USA really didn't lose a great deal of people proportionately in the world wars. As far as casualty rates go the USA has done fairly well.

Still proportionately if 200K to 400K is going to stand out that much with the current population I would expect 300K give or take with a much lower population to stand out strongly.

Maybe they don't include war deaths in the data or something?

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duckduck [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

I think war deaths are counted, there is actually a rather large spike for 1943, which is actually the largest spike on the graph between 1937 and 2019, and the second largest spike during that time was 1968, also a war year.

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muslimporn 2 points ago +2 / -0

I forgot it's over a few years.

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DisbandTheCIA 1 point ago +1 / -0

Way back machine + CDC provincial death counts you can literally see them add hundreds of thousands of deaths after the year was over.

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duckduck [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

See the horrors of covid.