The actual number of deaths in the US is substantially higher than "official" figures. (>423,000) The tragic truth is it did not have to be this way. If the United States had a competent federal administration in power, rapid and comprehensive action to control the spread could have saved tens of thousands of lives. Whether KIller was merely incompetent, or recklessly indifferent is for history to decide, or perhaps the New York Attorney General because Central Joe is not interested.
The truth is that deaths in the US will approach the estimated 650,000 who died in the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918 before widespread immunity is achieved through mass inoculation. At least public officials then had an excuse--it was not known viruses existed. (Shope, 1931). Hysterical crying of wolf? Not so much! The most frightening figure: 74 million citizens and 126 legislators of a decrepit republic agree with Der Trumpenführer and his clownish attempt to overturn representative democracy. This time there was no capital fire and no paramilitaries in the streets, but white supremacist militia stabbed four counter-protestors and burned BLM banners at black churches--close enough for US Person. Yes, Virginia we have a fascism problem and it is not going away even after the Tangerine Menace goes golfing in Palm Beach until 2024.
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