more COVID deaths in Florida the last two weeks...than U.S. military deaths in Afghan. for 20 years

[IcyPeas]

WHY isn't this the top news story?

Hakeem Jeffries
@RepJeffries
There have been more COVID deaths in Florida over the last two weeks

Than U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan during the past 20 years.

And they call themselves the pro-life party.

Link to tweet

[MLAA]

1. What an excellent statement. Glad you posted it. 🙂

[Deuxcents]

2. Did not realize this comparison

My god.. this is just depressing as we are about to acknowledge 9-11.

[Haggard Celine]

3. K&R!

[lindysalsagal]

4. We only like terrorists who go to church......

[aeromanKC]

7. Our

[KPN]

8. Evangelical Christians -- America's Taliban it seems.

[stillcool]

5. Afghanistan is where it's at these days

far more important than how red states are dealing with Covid. I'd much rather hear about the Taliban doing bad things, than read about the daily dying of the United States government and it's people. It is hard to understand what the status is of Afghanistan in relation to the U.S., but then that is true of red states as well. I'd ask a Republican but that would scramble too many brain cells.

[Evolve Dammit]

6. This! Should be headline in every U.S. news outlet. Where is our national outrage at the abuse

from the hands of GOP governors like Death Sentence? Pro-Life my ass. A 9-11 death toll almost every day...again. Virtually no acknowledgment of the dead. Anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers get more.

[KPN]

9. Pardon my language, but ... No Shit!

[Evolve Dammit]

10. I fear we are just numb to the numbers of infections and deaths. And many don't believe it anyhow...

[KPN]

13. Yup. BTW, in case there's any question, I meant

“no shit!” In the affirmative sense.

There was a comment in another thread earlier today about being numb to all the deaths from the 1918 Spanish Flu set the stage for demagogues’/autocrats’ rise in the 20s and 30s.

[Evolve Dammit]

14. Thanks. Interesting comparison to the previous pandemic.

[monkeyman1]

11. " REPUBLICAN TALIBAN " . DeSantis - negligent homicide!

[FakeNoose]

12. Hah! This is good, somebody posted this on Rep. Jeffries' thread

[Evolve Dammit]

15. Ain't that the truth! Wonder where that is? Amazing stone? carving