Visual representation of the toll of the COVID virus

 

    We saw the 400 lighted lanterns around the Reflection Pool each representing 1000 COVID deaths.  There is another example of what 400,000 deaths looks like.

      Arlington Cemetary has 400,000 people buried there.  It has taken 157 years to get to that number and a year to get to that number of COVID deaths.

   

P.S.

     We have been so desensitized to the number of deaths that when we hear that in the next month an additional 100,000 Americans may die we just accept it as just another month in this American pandemic. Where is the outrage that our political institutions have been made so incompetent that we are looked upon by the rest of the world as a failing country?  When 5,000 people were killed on 9/11 we fought wars and spent trillions of dollars to address a foreign threat.  What are we willing to commit to addressing the internal extremist threat that brought the attempt by the president of the United States to violently overturn a valid constitutional event at the US Capitol on December 6th?  Addressing an internal threat will be more difficult than an external threat but the consequences of not addressing the threat may determine if we remain a democratic country in any form.