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> If watching this footage makes you want to stand up and do something, remember that Covid-19 is killing as many people in the US every two days as died in the

> If watching this footage makes you want to stand up and do something, remember that Covid-19 is killing as many people in the US every two days as died in these attacks. Please. This is just going to create more toxic conversation and politics. Can we just focus on 9/11 victims and mourne peacefully? Rest of the top level comments here are sharing stories about their personal experience. I know you mean well but its the wrong place to bring this up.

rexpop 5y ago
No. 9/11 has been mourned to death. Its importance has been cynically inflated by political PR mercenaries. It's impossible, after all the bad-faith grandiosity, to observe this day in any way approaching respect for the dead. It's far too late for that. Or else, it's too soon. Maybe some day we can mourn the society we could have been that wouldn't have wrung all humanity from this event by exploiting it to the point of ludicrousness. No, we cannot focus on the victims, and we cannot mourn peacefully. That has been shown. That is not something of which we are capable, sorry. Meanwhile, there are other, real issues facing real, living human beings that we still have a chance to save, and whose lives have not been propagandized beyond farce. If we came to our senses today, we could focus on COVID victims, and mourn peacefully. They, we, still have a chance at that. 9/11 is best left alone, frankly. It's not the national tragedy it's been made out to be.