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Old 03-07-2021, 02:19 PM
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Interesting perspective.

Total US deaths during WW1 = 116,516
Total US deaths during WW2 = 405,399
Total US deaths for both wars = 521,915

US total costs of WW2 alone in 2019 dollars = $4.1 trillion.

Did we win the war and recover from that enormous national debt? You betcha.
How? We made the necessary sacrifices and came together with unity as a nation.

We're at war with COVID-19
The total US deaths from COVID-19 = 523,000 to date. That already exceeds WW2.
Will we win the war? Will our national debt be unsurmountable?
Only if we don't make the necessary sacrifices, and come together with unity as a nation.
Great interesting thread starter about a historic and current subject. Way to weave them together. One out of every three people in the US know someone that has died of CV. The new and more deadly British variant has been found in 19% of all NEW US cases. And the graph of the increase is very steep upward.