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Originally Posted by DanT
I think I understand what you mean. You're right that disease-related deaths don't necessarily involve conflicts among humans, the way that the attacks on December 7, 1941, and September 11, 2001 did.
I think the Surgeon General was just trying to acknowledge the magnitude of the loss of life and communicate that as a nation we're about to go though a period with very grim daily death counts of the sort we rarely see.
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For sure, and I think I understand the reasoning why he uses the comparison. It is a way of uniting during a crisis.
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