[daniel1212]

One more issue to induce fear, and make face masks a permanent part of the American persona. For comparison, the CDC states 214,000 people die each year from injury—1 person every 3 minutes. But COVID-19 kills less per capita of the whole population, unless you live in NYC.

Yet for real distancing this should do it:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/spacewalk-spacesuit-basics

[RBW in PA]

Quick, shut the economy down!

[Eleutheria5]

To the fallout shelters! There are still isotopes floating around from Yucca Flats, Chernobyl, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Three-mile island! It might make your Type 2 Diabetes minutely worse.

[Howie66]

EPA has “standards”? Who knew?

[libh8er]

How exactly does “air pollution” kill ? I mean how did they determine air pollution to be the cause of their death ? It’s like saying ‘killed by Climate Change’.

[rfp1234]

Lower torso, who knew? I thought it was called abdomen.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Total effin BS.

While that number is crap to begin with, the enviro kooks (socialists really) refuse to acknowledge how many deaths there would be if we eliminated all progress that causes this “pollution” they blame. The progress they bemoan has lengthened the life spans of many millions of people.

[Bonemaker]

"Around 200,000 Americans Die Every Year From Air Pollution That Meets EPA Standard"

Around 200,000 Americans Die Every Year From Air.

[UNGN]

This is complete BS and they have been repeating this BS since Clinton was President. Europe has 50% diesel cars. Diesel cars put out 20X-50X the PM2.5 of a gasoline car. It’s been that way for 40 years.

Where are the dead bodies in the streets of Europe Pre February 2020?

[FreedomNotSafety]

According to the logic subscribed to by many on this forum aka Chicken Freepers:

1. Listen to The Experts
2. We cant wait for good data...do something now
3. We just don’t know how bad it is so save us, please
4. Look at that case fatality rate
5. I’m afwaid
6. I am getting a check from the government so SHUT IT DOWN NOW
7. We must save lives especially our own
8. If our Constitution is shredded thats ok because well 7.

[SkyDancer]

But it’s not a media crisis; it’s only a crisis when they say it is and when a Republican is in the WH esp. Trump.

[VeniVidiVici]

And amazingly enough NOBODY died of air pollution during the Corona Virus.

[zeestephen]

Re: “Around 200,000 Americans Die Every Year From Air Pollution That Meets EPA Standard”

What are their names?

[wjcsux]

There’s only one person who ever got out of here alive.

[hinckley buzzard]

Rubbish. If the air was this clean in 1970 there would never have been a Clean Air Act, or maybe even an EPA at all. They're looking at particles so fine that we didn't even know they existed fifty years ago.

[wjcsux]

The clowns from Newsweak should visit a large city in China. I have been in Beijing when the tops of the buildings downtown are fuzzy due to all of the pollution.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Are they still made by Playtex?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/neil-armstrongs-spacesuit-was-made-by-a-bra-manufacturer-3652414/

[Uncle Miltie]

They should go back to coal and wood smoke.

[Pollard]

Good thing we have reduced it over the daces then. Cleaned up our rivers and lakes too in most places.

I wonder how they feel about China’s air quality?

[Steve_Seattle]

"Air pollution claims about 200,000 American deaths every year"

No one has "air pollution" listed as the cause of death in their medical record, so this is obviously some sort of agenda-driven extrapolation from deaths attributed to other causes - emphysema, asthma, etc. No major American city has serious, life-threatening air pollution at this time. The article is BS.

[smokingfrog]

Every year an estimated 290,000 to 650,000 people die in the world due to complications from seasonal influenza (flu) viruses. This figure corresponds to 795 to 1,781 deaths per day due to the seasonal flu.