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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums2977 people died at 9/11. So far, 2490 Americans have died of COVID-19.
I bet, Republicans will welcome with open arms the opportunity of a 9/11-style commission to find out what went wrong.
You know, a lengthy fact-gathering and hearing-process that drags every document, every decision and every public statement back into the light and compiles them into one convenient timeline of what happened.
magicarpet
(14,167 posts).... estimate 200,000 deaths.(just this morning.)
And you know how this clown car show likes to fudge the numbers. We could be talking 700,000 easy.
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Trump Extends Social Distancing Guidelines Through End of April
The president, facing grim figures from his health advisers, starkly reversed an earlier upbeat assessment that the country could relax the guidelines by Easter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-guidelines.html
Miguelito Loveless
(4,473 posts)Trump will be responsible for about two orders of magnitude more dead people due to incompetence.
Botany
(70,581 posts)"The total number of military personnel killed was 2,335, including 2,008 navy personnel, 109 marines,
and 218 army. Added to this were 68 civilians, making the total 2403 people dead."
https://visitpearlharbor.org/faqs/how-many-people-died-at-pearl-harbor-during-the-attack/
flotsam
(3,268 posts)Under Bush over 2000 were killed but it wasn't their fault, And over 2000 are dead but it isn't Trumps fault. But 4 embassy people were killed in Benghazi and Obama and Clinton should have been impeached???