The comparison of covid and 9/11 is pretty clear. I did not bring it up for political points. It’s a very significant and recent historical event. 9/11 represen

The comparison of covid and 9/11 is pretty clear. I did not bring it up for political points. It’s a very significant and recent historical event. 9/11 represented an attack on the US people on homeland territory by a foreign actor. Pandemics have been suggested widely as comparable to fighting a war on home territory. It’s just not as easy to spot the damage because pandemics don’t send in troops with guns and bombs. They spread insidiously from person to person through microscopic viruses. We have to fight the virus on it’s playing field-the routes it takes between hosts. The deaths from covid have been spread out across the population enough to not make as visible an impact as 9/11. Which is precisely why comparing the effects of covid to widely known historical events helps build an impression of the size and effect of the event.