Than died on 9/11 ...

... from the terror attacks that caused the entire political apparatus of the United States to lurch into wars and radical restructuring of domestic life.

As the comments note, there is reasonable debate about this 4409 number.

The 7-day moving average is certainly lower. And and a variety of states are now reporting in odd ways that mess with the stats.

But by any way you want to measure it, whether we're having a 9/11 every day, or every other day, it's astonishing how blasé a significant part of our population has become over the toll.

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it's astonishing how blasé a significant part of our population has become over the toll.

and fatalistic