On September 11, 2001, 19 men hijacked four airplanes. A total of 2,977 people were killed in New York City, Washington, DC and outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Many suggested that the world changed due to these events, and considerable resources have been spent by many countries to seek to prevent future such events.
I have been watching as the death toll from COVID-19 has passed that number: first worldwide, then USA, then New York State, and then New York City.
According to the Ontario Government COVID-19 case data: All Ontario, as of today the number of deaths in Ontario alone from COVID-19 is 2,813.
Far less resources were ever put into preparedness for this far greater threat, which had been predicted well in advance. This intelligence and policy failure on the part of many governments must be acknowledged and prevented in the future.
When you hear people claiming the pandemic is a 'COVID fake emergency', please remember that there were also people who denied the attacks on September 11'th ever happened.
As we morn the ongoing COVID-19 deaths I hope we will do everything we can to prevent this level of harmful impacts in the future! While pathogens can't be prevented, the level of harm we are seeing and will continue to see from this pandemic could have been avoided.
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