58,318 US soldiers died in all of Vietnam. A decade long war. Now imagine a war where 800 - 1,000 US soldiers were dying every day, day after day, month after grueling month - and most of those deaths were avoidable. 125,000 dead in just five months.
Now know this is the ongoing death toll from the coronavirus in the US today. And despite this, Trump declares victory, governors reopen economies, and the media refuses to put faces to the dead. After all to die in war is glorious. To die of an infectious disease - weak. And besides unbridled consumerism must continue at all cost.
What is so tragic is that most of the rest of the world has managed to contain the virus. The US hasn't’ the will or the humanity to do so. From here on out most of the deaths in this country from the virus will have been avoidable save our greed, selfishness, and weakness of will.
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