Once covid deaths hit a 9/11 per day in the United States without radical action being taken to stop the spread, it really sunk in for me on a visceral level that Americans in general do not actually give a solitary shit about any of the people that died on 9/11. It was a tragedy not for the large loss of life, but simply because it was an attack on the United States that hurt national pride.

Cars do a 9/11 per month continuously just in the USA