The number of confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. has now exceeded the number of Americans who died in the Vietnam War as of Wednesday morning.
John Hopkins University’s COVID-19 tracker reports that 58,355 people have died from the virus. By contrast, 58,220 American service members died during the Vietnam War from 1955 to 1975, per the government’s National Archives.
On Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump bragged about his travel ban on China in late January, claiming that it had been an effective response to the pandemic.
“Whether it was luck, talent, or something else, we saved many thousands of lives,” he told reporters in the Oval Office.
Surpassed the death toll in Vietnam in a matter of months not years that it took to reach these numbers. And, anyone remember how horrified we were back then?
This is one new scary world we’ve entered and I can only hope we can get to something resembling normal in the future.
And like the Vietnam War, at least some of this might have been avoided with realistic and determined leadership…qualities notably absent in the current administration. Tragically, the dying will probably continue.
Didn’t trumpfuckwad actually say “You’ll be sick with all the winning” ?
I’m assuming “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?“ will no longer be the republican election pitch.
Or our idea of normal will change…
Well, isn’t this special? Disgraced, former Missouri Governor Grietens is distributing faulty face masks to first responders for the GOP and Koch Brothers in Kansas City:
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/former-gov-eric-greitens-donates-150-faulty-n95-masks-to-missouri-