On the Eve of 1,000,000 Deaths
May. 10th, 2022 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerIt's Tier Tuesday, etc., etc. The headline news in Coronavirus statistics this week Tuesday is that we're on the eve of 1,000,000 deaths in the US from Covid-19. Per figures at The New York Times Coronavirus in the U.S. (retrieved 10 May 2022) the U.S. death toll stands at 999,916. With an average of 365 deaths/day recently the one million mark will certainly be crossed tomorrow... if it isn't actually crossed tonight as late figures roll in.
One million deaths.
One million deaths in barely over two years.
One million deaths and barely anyone wants to take it seriously. Approximately 40% of the country believes political conspiracy theories that it's a hoax. Another 40% or so is just tired of dealing with it. And most of the rest figure it's too much of an uphill battle to do anything about it from via public health policy anymore.
One million deaths. Over the 26 months since the death toll really started accumulating (March, 2020) that's an average of 38,461 dead per month or about 1,266 a day. And there were numerous times when more than 3,000 died on any given day.
Even on those days when 3,000+ were dying the news might as well have been background noise. A non-factor in most people's daily lives.
Think about other times when fewer than 3,000 people were killed.
December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor. 2,403 US persons were killed. The US declared war on Japan the next day, entering WWII, and changed the course of history in ways that affect virtually every person in the world through the current day.
September 11, 2001. The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a flight that crashed in rural Pennsylvania when civilians fought back against the attackers. 2,977 US persons died that day. US laws, practices, and understanding of civil rights have been turned upside since that day. Go to any airport today, nearly 20 years later, and you're subject to numerous policies borne out of 9-11-01. But already the policies of the Coronavirus pandemic, with its now 1,000,000 dead, were ended less than 2 years after being started.
1 million dead in the US. And at least a hundred of million in the US who don't care.
One million deaths.
One million deaths in barely over two years.
One million deaths and barely anyone wants to take it seriously. Approximately 40% of the country believes political conspiracy theories that it's a hoax. Another 40% or so is just tired of dealing with it. And most of the rest figure it's too much of an uphill battle to do anything about it from via public health policy anymore.
One million deaths. Over the 26 months since the death toll really started accumulating (March, 2020) that's an average of 38,461 dead per month or about 1,266 a day. And there were numerous times when more than 3,000 died on any given day.
Even on those days when 3,000+ were dying the news might as well have been background noise. A non-factor in most people's daily lives.
Think about other times when fewer than 3,000 people were killed.
December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor. 2,403 US persons were killed. The US declared war on Japan the next day, entering WWII, and changed the course of history in ways that affect virtually every person in the world through the current day.
September 11, 2001. The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a flight that crashed in rural Pennsylvania when civilians fought back against the attackers. 2,977 US persons died that day. US laws, practices, and understanding of civil rights have been turned upside since that day. Go to any airport today, nearly 20 years later, and you're subject to numerous policies borne out of 9-11-01. But already the policies of the Coronavirus pandemic, with its now 1,000,000 dead, were ended less than 2 years after being started.
1 million dead in the US. And at least a hundred of million in the US who don't care.
