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The Great American Reconstruction
Chapter One. Acknowledgement: The war is over.
Five-hundred-seventy-four thousand more Americans died between March 2020 and March 24th, 2021 than the average amount for that span of time. Five-hundred-forty-one thousand were due in some part to Covid-19.
Six-hundred-twenty thousand Americans were killed during The Civil War between 1861 and 1865. The bloodiest day of the war was the Battle of Antietam where 23,000 died. The record number of Covid-19 related deaths for a single day in 2021 was fifty-five-hundred and three. On April 15th, 2020 six-thousand-four-hundred and eighty-five died.
It is a safe bet to say that by the time Covid-19 has run its course, it will have killed more Americans than our first, bloody Civil War. While some historians now place the estimated number of American dead near 850,000 during the Civil War, the total number of dead in all other conflicts in the history of The United States is 644,000.
The Covid-19 pandemic has killed nearly as many Americans as our deadliest war. It is no coincidence that both massive losses of lives stem from the same root — Americans choosing violence against each other, rather than working together to defeat a common enemy. In either case, the fuel for this divisive and destructive hate comes from fear, bred along…
