3452 Deaths A Week Is Too Damn Many

This virus isn’t done with us yet…

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According to the CDC’s COVID-19 tracker page, 3,452 died last week from COVID.

To put this in a different perspective, the 9/11 attacks killed 2,977 innocent people.

So every week we are witnessing nearly 500 MORE people die from COVID than those who died on 9/11, except what could we as average regular citizens do to have prevented those deaths on 9/11?

Nothing.

But these 3,452 COVID deaths last week?

We could have done a whole helluva lot more than we did — simply by continuing to mask up.

And to put that 3,452 number into another perspective, if we multiply it by 52 weeks in a year, we come up with 179,504 deaths by a virus that is largely stopped by masking up.

COVID-19 remains a profoundly significant threat

Nearly 500 people are still dying every day from COVID-19.

And while, yes, that is far fewer than during the darkest days of our previous COVID surges, it is still far, far more than should be considered…