500K Americans died of #Covid! On #InaugurationDay it was 420K so they put one light on the #ReflectingPool at the #LincolnMemorial for each thousand deaths. It looked like this, but this isn't what 400K people look like! Doesn't look as shocking as 400K! npr.org/sections/coron…
In 1969 I went up to Max Yasgur's farm to sleep in the mud and sit on a hill overlooking a stage where #JanisJoplin, #JimiHendrix, and #JoanBaez played. So I know what 500 thousand people look like. They look like a sea of swaying humanity. There was no crime in #WoodstockNation 
500 thousand Americans have died, and I think the number is just too incomprehensible, it's so big, it has lost it's meaning. I've found when I say, "500 thousand people have died!" somebody always asks, how many were supposed to die this year? Because they honestly do not know.
And then they proceed with; "Don't 60 thousand Americans die of flu every year?" Yes, they do. "Don't 665 thousand Americans die of Heart Disease every year?? They do, poor souls, yes. "Don't thousands die in traffic? How many were supposed to die? They honestly do not know.
But I know how many were supposed to die. It was supposed to be 500 thousand less. What I am telling you is that all those other people still died of the flu, heart attacks, smoking, strokes and #DarwinAwards! Another half million who wouldn't have died, they died too! 500K more.
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