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| Topic | Do you think coronavirus is now a bigger news story than 9/11 was? |
| RyoCaliente 03/26/20 5:20:56 PM #99: | cyan1001 posted... First responders and survivors of 9 11 are still dealing with the effects of all that was in the air after the buildings came down Several people who were inflicted with COVID-19 have also suffered permanent lung damage? I think for the world, yes, easily. I've had MANY people tell me that they've never experienced anything like this and the situation the country is in now. I can see the US growing to that state, but as one of the posters said above, the impact of 9/11 was definitely that America, this untouchable nation, this emperor of the world, was attacked and suffered a devastating blow on their own territory by a foreign nation, which hadn't happened since basically Pearl Harbor (which was then in the middle of a World War as well). If 9/11 had happened anywhere else, and kids had told their parents they were afraid, the parents would have replied with "That won't/can't happen here". And then it did. It smashed the air of invulnerability that permeated the US, so in that sense I don't think coronavirus has "beaten" it yet when it comes to a news story in the US. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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