Perspective on the number of deaths in America

What do the following cities from each state have in common? Please take a few minutes to read the full list, note the percentages after, then see the answer at the end. (The list is alphabetical by state)

Alabama – Montgomery (104.5%)

Alaska – Anchorage (73%)

Arizona – Scottsdale (92%)

Arkansas – Little Rock (113%)

California – Glendale (104%);

                   Modesto (100%);

                   San Bernadino (105%)

Colorado – Colorado Springs (54%)

Connecticut – Hartford and New Haven (combined)(83.5%)

Delaware – Wilmington and Dover and Newark and Middletown and Bear

                   and Glasgow (combined)(97.9%)

Florida – Orlando (97.2%);

              Clearwater and Tallahassee (combined)(77.8%);

              Ft. Lauderdale and Gainesville (combined)(75.3%)

Georgia – Athens-Clarke County (200.0%);

                August-Richmond County (109%);

                Columbus (111.9%)

Hawaii – Honolulu (54.91%)

Idaho – Boise City (107.3%)

Illinois – Peoria and Springfield (combined)(91.2%)

Indiana – Ft. Wayne (92.8%)

               South Bend and Springfield (combined)(93.7%)

Iowa – Des Moines (106.7%)

Kansas – Kansas City (143.8%);

               Topeka and Olathe (88.8%)

Kentucky – Lexington-Fayette (77.3%)

Louisiana – Shreveport (104%)

Maine – Portland and Lewiston and Bangor and South Portland and

             Auburn and Biddeford (combined)(101.62%)

Maryland – Towson and Silver Spring and Frederick (combined)(100%)

Massachusetts – Cambridge and Lowell (combined)(102%)

Michigan – Grand Rapids (106.8%);

                  Ann Arbor and Flint (combined)(88.8%)

Minnesota – St. Paul (75.3%)

Mississippi – Jackson (116.3%)

Missouri – Springfield and Independence (combined)(79.6%)

Montana – Billings and Missoula (combined)(110.70%)

Nebraska – Lincoln (86.6%)

Nevada – Reno (101.7%)

New Hampshire – Manchester and Nashua (combined)(104%)

New Jersey – Jersey City (79%)

New Mexico – Santa Fe and Roswell and Las Cruces (combined)(88%)

New York – Rochester (98.1%);

                    Syracuse (146.2%);

                    Yonkers (105.4%);

                    Buffalo (74.2%)

North Carolina – Durham (101.1%);

                           Winston-Salem (106.8%)

North Dakota – Fargo and Bismarck (combined)(104.49%)

Ohio – Akron (98.2%);

           Dayton (130.3%);

           Cincinnati (67.1%);

           Toledo (68.7%)

Oklahoma – Norman (203.54%);

                   Broken Arrow (188.18%);

                   Edmond (220.21%);

                   Tulsa (51.62%)

Oregon – Salem and Eugene (combined)(70.58%)

Pennsylvania – Allentown and Erie (combined)(98.81%)

                        Luzerne County (entire county, includes the

                        City of Wilkes-Barre)(65.22%)

                        Pittsburgh (65.36%)

Rhode Island – Providence and Newport (combined)(102.93%)

South Carolina – Charleston and Columbia (combined)(92.54%)

South Dakota – Sioux Falls and Rapid City (combined)(100%)

Tennessee – Chattanooga (133.81%)

                    Clarksville (183.51%)

                     Knoxville (115.00%)

Texas – Amarillo (113.12%)

             Irving (106.92%)

             Abilene (180.47%)

             Laredo (99.52%)

             Lubbock (99.04%)

             Garland (92.59%)

Utah – Salt Lake City (116.29%)

Vermont – Burlington and South Burlington and Rutland and Barre and Montpelier

                 and Winooski and St. Albans and Newport and Vergennes (top 10 cities

                 in Vermont)(combined)(179.84%)

Virginia – Richmond (107.25%)

                 Arlington (106.15%)

Washington – Spokane (105.18%)

                      Tacoma (105.67%)

West Virginia – Charleston and Huntington and Morgantown and Parkersburg and

                         Wheeling and Fairmont and Weirton and Martinsburg (combined)(100%)

Wisconsin – Green Bay and Kenosha and Racine (combined)(76.72%);

                    Madison (88.84%)

Wyoming – Cheyenne and Laramie and Casper and Rock Springs and Gillette and

                   Sheridan (combined)(96.32%) OR the entire population of Wyoming

                   (53.95%)

Washington, D.C. (37%)

 Now, to answer my question at the top of the post. The population of these cities in each state equals how many Americans have died in our country due to the coronavirus. I suggest you now go back and look at these cities and take in what that means.

Where there are percentages less than 100%, that means that percentage of the listed cities' population equals the US deaths. If the percentage is MORE than 100%, that means MORE than the total number of population in that city number-wise have died. For example, if the percentage is 150%, then 1 1/2 times the number of people in that city are equivalent to 207,000 people who have died from COVID.

 I took the time to tally this information (as I was resting and awaiting the results of my own COVID test, which thankfully, was negative), to graphically represent what 207,000 people means.

 Why? It seems to me that people have become desensitized to the magnitude of the deaths of this pandemic in our country - a country that has 4% of the world's population, but 20% of the world's cases and 20% of the world's deaths. That statistic alone is disheartening and shocking, and speaks volumes to how the governmental response to this pandemic has been mishandled.

 Keep in mind that these percentages represent how many people have died in the US alone, based on 207,000 deaths, the number of deaths as of Friday, October 2, 2020 when I compiled the list. Percentages today will now be HIGHER because as of Sunday, October 4, 2020 deaths have increased to 209,000 since Friday, October 2, 2020 – an increase of roughly 1,000 people PER DAY. Statistically, as of September 30, 2020, an average of 925 people PER DAY have died due to the coronavirus in the US since the first COVID case was recorded in the country in mid-January. So keep that in mind as you look at the cities in the list (https://www.statista.com/.../covid-19-daily-deaths.../).

 To put this in further perspective, imagine that more people in the US have died from COVID than all of the inhabitants of Irvine, California; more than all of the inhabitants of Richmond, Virginia; more than all of the inhabitants of Boise, Idaho and Spokane, Washington.

 Now, imagine if the US had sustained a terrorist attack like 9/11 and the cities above had deaths from bombs instead of a pandemic. Imagine that instead of 2 cities and a field causing 3,000 deaths on 9/11, that 70 - 70! - cities each sustained terroristic attacks that each had 3,000 deaths.

THIS is the magnitude of deaths due to the coronavirus pandemic in America.

 Next, think about the politicized response to the coronavirus that has been going on since Day One of this crisis, and try to imagine instead how this country would have responded under the terrorist attack scenarios I just outlined for the same number of deaths.

Whether from a terrorist attack or a pandemic, a death of a loved one is a death.

 Do your part. Be as patriotic now as you were in response to 9/11! Wear a mask. Social Distance. These are the only weapons we currently have to fight this national horror.

 Please share this post. People need to gain back perspective of the impact of this disease.

 Drastic times call for a coordinated and unified response. PLEASE DO YOUR PART.

 Thank you.