Now More American COVID-19 Deaths Than Vietnam & Korea Combined

I knew STRONGLY SUSPECTED this day was coming very soon.

It’s now here.

Soon enough, we’ll surpass the number of deaths in WWI – 116,516.

Only 18,805 to go.

Welcome aboard the Death Train.

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Figures are total deaths, i.e., combat, and non-combat related deaths.

Vietnam War Deaths = 58,209
+
Korean War Deaths = 36,516
GRAND TOTAL = 94,725

COVID-19 Deaths in the United States as of 8:32:56 PM, 24 May 2020 = 97,711

Difference = 2986

War in Afghanistan Deaths = 2,216

Difference = 770

Gulf War Deaths = 294

Difference = 476

Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA

Beirut Deployment Deaths = 266

Difference = 210

Somalia Deaths =

Mitt Romney chooses Paul Ryan as running mate; Damage Control begins

Paul Ryan, ‘Brown Noser’? The Wikipedia Edit Wars Begin for Romney’s Running Mate

By Megan Garber

Aug 11 2012, 9:13 AM ET

Now that his candidacy is official, Paul Ryan’s Wikipedia page will become a battle ground.

Paul Ryan’s classmates vote him “Biggest ‘Brown-Noser.'” pic.twitter.com/P2DrIncJ Photo via Twitter via @ryanlizza – Washington Correspondent for The New Yorker, Contributor for CNN

In high school, Paul Ryan’s classmates voted him as his class’s “biggest ‘brown noser.'” This little tidbit is a source of delight for political opponents of the Wisconsin representative-turned-Romney-running mate; to his supporters, in general, it’s an irrelevant piece of youthful trivia.

But it’s also a tension that will play out, repeatedly, in the most comprehensive narrative we have about Paul Ryan as a person and a politician and a policy-maker: his Wikipedia page. Late last night, Politico reports — just as news of the Ryan choice leaked in the political press — the first substantial edit to that page removed an extant “brown noser” mention:

removing prom king and brown noser from article –see discussion on “talk” page

But then another user put the “brown noser” mention back in. Because: relevant!

And then another user removed it again, explaining:

Removed unnecessary statement from Early Life about … “Brown Noser.” This is not needed in article is not common in such brief survey sections.

As of this writing, “brown noser” stands. As does a maybe-mitigating piece of Ryan-as-high-schooler trivia: that he was also voted prom king. But that equilibrium could change, again, in an instant.

Now that Ryan’s confirmed,