Posted in Health, Pictures, tagged America, Avoid Crowds, BART, Bay Area Rapid Transit, COVID-19, DC Armory Parade Grounds, Health, Images, Lafayette Hillside Memorial, Neal Augenstein, Only Gather Outdoors, Pictures, Six-Feet Apart, Wash Your Hands, Wear Masks, WTOP on October 23, 2020|
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Several years ago, I was riding home on our BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) system and I looked out the window at the memorial to those lost in Iraq and Afghanistan. It moved me deeply. These lives lost are a far greater treasure lost than the “mere” trillions we’ve spent on fighting these conflicts. Our military forces are still present in both countries with no real (IMHO) hope of any “victory” in any normal sense of the word. The best we can hope for is that whatever government we leave in place when we finally withdraw is not slaughtered within the first two years of our “escape” – as happened in South Vietnam. |
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Anyway, I was watching the Presidential debate and listening to President Trump tell us how (once again) we’ve “turned the corner” on the COVID pandemic, while former Vice-President Biden was telling us under President Trump’s continued “leadership”, we stood to lose another 200,000 American lives by the end of the February. This morning, I was looking at some news sites and I saw an image which stopped me. It was an image of small flags, one for each American death from COVID. |
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Here is an update on the image of the lost military lives over the last 20 years: |
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Lafayette Hillside Memorial |
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And here is an image of Americans lost to COVID in less than nine(9) months: |
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Flags representing individual American lives lost to COVID so far in 2020. |
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Remember these flags are “expected” to double by the end of February 2021 if we don’t increase our efforts to stem this terrible pandemic. Today’s current death count: 227,107. |
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Please: 1) WEAR a mask; 2) wash your hands frequently; 3) practice social distancing (stay a minimum of six feet apart); 4) avoid large (more than 10 people) gatherings; and, 5) if you must gather (even with 10 or less), do it outdoors. |
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This predicted loss of life doesn’t HAVE to happen. Our losses over the last four months could probably been halved if we (90% of us) had simply followed these five simple rules. We cannot prevent all of the losses over the next four months. But estimates are that we could halve those predicted losses if we act based on science and not politics. The question is: What have we learned America? |
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2019 |
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2018 |
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2017 |
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2016 |
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2015 |
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2014 |
Indispensable Wits |
2013 |
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2012 |
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Light Shining Out of Darkness |
2011 |
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