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Grief, loss, and trauma are hardly specific to covid-related deaths. If that's our concern, we should really be considering overall mortality rates (looks to b
by CivBase 6y ago
Grief, loss, and trauma are hardly specific to covid-related deaths. If that's our concern, we should really be considering overall mortality rates (looks to be about 10-15% higher than previous years) and how many Americans know someone who has recently died, regardless of cause.
- ceejayoz 6y agoI'd argue that mass casualty events have some specific characteristics that differ from the normal background noise of deaths that happen on a routine basis. 9/11, for example, had a pretty disparate impact versus the raw number of deaths it generated.
- CivBase 6y agoSure, but the impact of a mass casualty event like 9/11 is not limited to people who knew the victims. Even though COVID-19 kills more Americans daily than the 9/11 attacks did, 9/11 has a comparable social impact because to most Americans it was an unanticipated, unprecedented act of human violence and we didn't know what to expect moving forward.