As fatigued as we all are of COVID-19, it would be disrespectful today not to recognize and mourn the horrible milestone we’ll likely cross by Monday – the deaths of 1 million Americans to a virus that could and should have been snuffed out last year had it not become another ridiculous political culture war talking point.
One million of us dead is not just a number.
It is one million people who, had we never heard of this virus in early 2020, would still be breathing and laughing and loving among us.
And one million of us dead is something none of us would ever have imagined possible in the modern and technical world in which we live. Even now, it’s hard sometimes to wrap our heads around the impact of one million dead.
Thanks to a wonderful recent Washington Post opinion video about this unprecedented American tragedy, here are some eye openers: