Who'll be the last to die for a mistake
The last to die for a mistake
Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break
Who'll be the last to die,
For a mistake.
"Last to Die"
-Bruce Springsteen
On February 26, 2020, with fifteen reported cases of COVID-19 in these United States and no reported deaths, President Trump said, "When you have fifteen people, and the fifteen a couple of days is going to be close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done."
On March 5, 2020, with one hundred seventy-two reported cases of COVID-19 in these United States and twelve reported deaths, President Trump tweeted, "Gallup just gave us the highest rating ever for the way we are handling the Coronavirus situation. The April 2009-10 swine flu, where nearly 13,000 people died in the United States, was poorly handled."
As of February 23, 2021, there were 501,000 COVID-19 deaths reported in the United States. In twelve months, we accelerated from zero to one-half million.
Heartbreaking. Stunning. Infuriating.
-AK
Looking at the deaths from COVID-19, I've yet to decide whether I'm more angered than sorrowful. The scale and scope of this catastrophe (basically one in every sixty-five or so of us dying) beggars belief.
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