More Americans were killed by the Covid crisis on December 7, 2020--earlier this week-- than were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, that led to America declaring war on Japan and entering World War II, committing billions of dollars and the full attention of American society on the goal of winning that war fought across two immense oceans.
Some 405,000 Americans were killed in the four years of that war, the largest death toll of any American war before or since, except the Civil War. America is currently on track to see more than 405,000 Covid deaths in less than one year, by the end of 2020. We're at some 286,000 now, the equivalent in American deaths of 5 Vietnams.
More Americans were killed by the Covid crisis on December 9, 2020--namely, yesterday-- than were killed in terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, which led to the expenditure of many billions of dollars in conflicts that are still not over. Both events thoroughly transformed American society.
Congress has currently allocated zero new dollars to addressing the Covid crisis or its economic and human effects. The President of the United States is AWOL. So are Republicans in Congress, and many Republican officeholders in the states.
This is America as 2020 ends.
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