NO MERCY NO MALICE
Covid-19 Has Now Cost Us Nearly as Much as WWII
But instead of spending trillions fighting the enemy, we’re making sure the Nasdaq doesn’t decline
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8 min readAug 11, 2020
America’s involvement in WWII lasted 3 years and 9 months, and 405,399 Americans perished (297 per day). U.S. forces have been fighting in Afghanistan for 19 years, and we’ve lost 2,285 servicemembers (one every three days). In WWII almost a third of fruits and vegetables were harvested from “Victory Gardens” planted in people’s…