re: #221 No Malarkey!

Laura Ingraham lied by both omission and red herring on Alan Dershowitz’s statement that Covid-19 is worse than smallpox.

The red herring was “300 million people died in the XX Century from smallpox.” That is worldwide, not the USA. That’s the red herring.

The worst year for smallpox in the United States was 1920, killing about 100,000 people. Therefore we have surpassed by more than five times the number of deaths from smallpox, with five more months to go. That’s the omission.

In terms of numbers of deaths from the disease, Covid-19 has been objectively worse than smallpox.