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The recent benchmark is 58,000. “Trump has killed more people than the Viet Nam War”. I can see that headline in the NY Slimes now. Recent wars in the interval may have driven that down further.

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Which is why Trump will not - nor should he - make any unilateral decisions. This has to be a national conversation: what are we as a free people willing to accept that balances public health with American traditions of social and economic liberty? What is that threshold? Are Churchill's famous words to be abandoned? We shall NOT go on to the end. ... we shall NOT fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

I don't see it. In fact, I expect this crisis will come to a head over generational differences. Why should 20-30 somethings just beginning their families and careers sacrifice their futures for the sake of Boomers? They already pay the tax bills to support SS/MCare, they already live in a world established to cater to Boomers. Now, they must be tied to a yoke and be made to suffer & sacrifice for the relative few yet again?