We have now surpassed 250,000 deaths from the Covid-19 virus and for a little perspective, consider the following.
- America lost 620,000 soldiers from the North and South (combined) during the Civil War.
- We lost 405,399 military personnel during World War II.
- World War I was an ironic amalgam: 116,516 total American military dead, 45,000 of them from the Spanish Flu.
- Korea: 36,516.
- Vietnam: 58,209.
- American Revolution: 25,000.
- Mexican War: 13,283
- Spanish-American: 2,446
- Gulf War: 294.
- Iraq/Afghanistan: 6,626).
