04-10-2020, 10:54 AM
The grim states to date:
![[Image: e1ef679e96b4c91d5756f13bd55bc43a654340af.png]](https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_United_States/0/e1ef679e96b4c91d5756f13bd55bc43a654340af.png)
![[Image: bdd2030a4d88e7214b104ac7298d70fc443c38a1.png]](https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_United_States/0/bdd2030a4d88e7214b104ac7298d70fc443c38a1.png)
For comparison:
Pearl Harbor attack 2335 US
9/11 2977 (not including the hijackers, including non-Americans as victims)
Battle of Gettysburg (three days) 3115 -- Union side only
D-Day 4415 (Allies only)
OK, the good news:
![[Image: 7b8b9de26741d87f238bc50b16b11c91faaf0257.png]](https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_United_States/0/7b8b9de26741d87f238bc50b16b11c91faaf0257.png)
Not good enough.
On the relevant logarithmic scale:
![[Image: defd3b1b49e54616178bad382d80233ad208cb2a.png]](https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_United_States/0/defd3b1b49e54616178bad382d80233ad208cb2a.png)
All sources are from Wikipedia.
For comparison:
Pearl Harbor attack 2335 US
9/11 2977 (not including the hijackers, including non-Americans as victims)
Battle of Gettysburg (three days) 3115 -- Union side only
D-Day 4415 (Allies only)
OK, the good news:
Not good enough.
On the relevant logarithmic scale:
All sources are from Wikipedia.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.