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Lara's avatar

I was just thinking yesterday that we've had nearly a month's worth of 9/11s.

I honestly don't think the press is covering the deaths enough. That's such a huge number that I think humans can't take it in. It becomes just a statistic, or a data point on a graph. Not because people (well, decent people who aren't sociopaths) don't have empathy, but because it's too awful and the human mind tries to protect us from it.

The media should be showing body bags and refrigerated trucks and hundreds of coffins and funerals. Because people need to be reminded that this isn't just a fight over who gets to have their hair cut or who gets a little sick and gets better.

Seriously. That's the population of a small city. 80 thousand people. Nearly 27 9/11s. Think of the days and days of crying many of us did after 9/11. But this is dispersed, it's quiet, and it's unseen because families can't even be at the hospital with their loved ones when they die. It's often after weeks on a ventilator.

America needs to feel the weight of this many deaths, to grieve it, and to understand it.

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mailman27's avatar

And it's hiding in plain sight. Of course.

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