December 7, 1941 And December 3, 2020: Two Dates That Should Live In Infamy

Today is the 79th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, resulting in the deaths of 2403 Americans. 

Last week, on December 3, a record number of 2804 Americans lost their lives due to Covid-19, and we have been experiencing losses at nearly the rate of a Pearl Harbor every day since.

Here are some other sobering comparisons:

The September 11, 2001, bombing of the World Trade Center resulted in 2977 casualties.

The Oklahoma City bombing claimed the lives of 168 people.

In 2019 an average of 100 people per day died as a result of highway accidents in the US.

The average number of American service members who died each day during 1968, at the height of the Vietnam conflict, was 46.

Meanwhile, there are around 2300 abortions performed in the US daily, the majority of which are of embryos in the first trimester of pregnancy.