The Trump Top 10: 1 — Mass Deaths of American People, Institutions & Minds

As of January 16, 2021, 387,255 human lives have been lost to the COVID-19 pandemic within the United States over the past 10 months, according to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Data scientists project that more than half a million American people may have died from COVID-19 by February 6.

More than one in every 1,000 people in the United States has died from COVID-19 since March 2020.

By comparison to World War II, World War I, Vietnam War, Korean War and September 11, 2001 casualties, only the first killed more Americans than the COVID-19 pandemic did — and the pandemic likely will have killed more within a month’s time.

This is not the worst of Trump’s legacy simply because of the deaths, though. The pandemic has given Trump a unique opportunity to showcase his most insidious qualities.

We Live in Mortal Fear

For those of us who live in the Washington, D.C. area and recall the paranoid atmosphere created by the ‘D.C. sniper’ who terrorized the region by shooting people to death at random from his car one year after September 11, 2001, the atmosphere of leaving our homes for any public space is similar: any exposure can be deadly.