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You may have noticed flags flying at half-staff today and paused to wonder why.

Normally, flags fly at half-staff because a notable individual has died, but that isn’t the case this week. This week flags are flying at half-staff to honor hundreds of thousands of people whose names are not widely known.

The United States passed a grim milestone this week in coronavirus deaths. Since the pandemic began last year, 500,000 Americans have died from COVID-19.

Flags will fly at half-staff until Feb. 26 to honor the 500,000 people in the United States who have died due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Of those 500,000 deaths, 14,689 were from Georgia with an additional 2,146 deaths in Georgia that were likely caused by COVID-19, but not confirmed. As of Monday, Georgia is averaging about 96 coronavirus deaths per day.

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  1. So. Government sponsored virtue signaling? Go ahead and flame me. The numbers are inflated-remember the money the government gave to promote covid numbers? Remember the death sentence a ventilator was? Remember how much more money the government gave for that?

    Yes. There is a thing that is covid. Yes. There are some people more susceptible to covid. Was the response appropriate?

    Many are screaming right now and don’t get any point made here. The numbers are hugely inflated yet still are less than one full percent deadly.

    That’s why it looks bad using the over inflated 500,000 number. They used it to crash an economy. They used it to get people to vote for them after hurting their own countrymen.

    But yeah. It’s me that is the bad guy. Everything is so political now. Why not a virus. I mean everything else predicted came true. Right?

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