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A really scary hour

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  A few days ago I attended a virtual meeting with a teacher and an international group of students of English. Duolingo organizes this type of event and I, after two years of use Duolingo, took the whole courage and I signed up for this event. It was the hardest experience of my life, oh, yes you and I know: I never worked in a mine or on an oil plant, I have never dug trenches in winter or paved roads in summer… It's a shame that no one reads this blog, it could be a great chance to make fun of me. I am going to have to do this on my own! There were students who come from Argentina, Messico, Marocco, Russia, Ghana, Germany, and other countries. The teacher did show us a short movie, she did a test then she divided us into groups and she asked us to make up a story by continuing an opening. My contribution to the meeting was nothing! I understood almost nothing and therefore hardly ever spoke! My main problem is... when I speak English I need to have in front of my eyes the Google

I want to talk about numbers

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  I would start from 110,000 , the number of deaths in Italy for covid-19. This number is more little of the increment of deaths of the annual average of the last five years, but this number is often disputed from no-vaxs (I hope it is possible to use the plural). I don't know because this is so. They say there is a conspiracy that obviously involves the government, research institutions, statisticians, the more part of the scientific community, even international level. Governments always fighting each other but only for covid-19 make the same things. Democracies and dictatorships use the same methods to fight the pandemic (to the net of propaganda). I'm not a scientist, nor a statistician, or an epidemiologist but I studied arithmetics in primary school and now I am able to read the numbers. In Italy was died 1 person every 600 people for covid-19 and It seems 1 person every 100,000 die for one of the vaccines used in Italy (but this is not sure). Too many people won't