Yes. It’s ridiculous. Might as well leave the flag at half staff permanently.
You are right. Every day since the death of America on January 20th, 2009.
Actually, that would appropriately represent the death of the United States and the Constitution at the hands of the current administration.
To answer the base question, yes we are abusing the flag’s lowering to half staff for just about every Tom, Dick, and Harry. Having said that, while driving around Memphis this week, I saw many at half staff. I asked my wife why and all she could come up with was it was for Pat Summitt, former head women’s basketball coach at UT. That made sense because no local or state politicians had died this week.