Wow, that is a lot of people. But instead of comparing it to the utterly useless statistic of 9/11s (after all, if mainstream media constantly compared numbers of people who die in car accidents to 9/11s, people would never drive again!), maybe we should try to place it in the context of other deaths in this country. One thing we might do, for instance, is question who's dying of Covid. As it turns out, 93% of Covid deaths are over 55, and
the median age of death from Covid is 78. In 2019, the median life expectancy of the US was 78.8 years; in 2020 it was 77.8 -- meaning the
average age of Covid deaths was higher than median life expectancy, and even if you say Covid was what brought down life expectancy, its median age of death was still pretty close to the total pre-covid life expectancy. So are you really concerned about Covid, or are you concerned about the fact that 75+ year-old people tend to die? It may sound callous, but if Covid hadn't killed who it killed, something else soon would have.
Because old people are the only ones, statistically, in any sort of danger from Covid, why is it that they can't simply isolate themselves and get vaccinated should they desire to? Why should the majority of people, who are in no danger from Covid, be forced to vaccinate, wear masks, and isolate from others?
Let's also talk about a similarly "unfathomable" "magnitude of human loss." Heart disease kills about
655,000 Americans per year, more than Covid has killed in total. Why is it that I never hear the federal government propose firing people who eat at McDonald's, or preventing people who are fat from leaving their homes? After all, fat people will inevitably support fast food or soda companies, which are contributing to the pandemic of obesity, with a death toll of over 222 9/11s (we know that obesity leads to a magnitude of problems besides heart disease, so its death toll is undoubtedly much higher). Or why not mandate that everyone, fat or not, undergo surgery to have a gastric band implanted? After all, they'll clearly save lives, and since the federal government will pay for it, it'll be "free."
Why did the hard-working and dedicated medical professionals working for J&J put asbestos in baby powder? Surely they wouldn't have completed their grueling programs of study out of malice. Or what about the ones working for Pfizer, which conducted an unapproved clinical trial with its antibiotic drug Trovan on 200 children, which wound up killing 11 of them? (
You can read more about Pfizer's history here)