During the entire Vietnam War, about 50,000 American soldiers were killed. After the end of the war, another 100,000 died of suicide, presumably due to post traumatic stress. 150,000 victims over the course of almost 20 years. And now, we have almost 40,000 people dying in a single day due to Covid-19. Maybe 100,000 will die per day in the near future. About 3,300 innocent victims died in the 9/11 attack and the event galvanized an entire nation for 20 years. Today 40,000 people die per day, and we casually politicize the event and ignore even a pretense of strategic attack on a Federal scale. Astounding.
copyright (c) 2020
William Schaeffer
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