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The caption at the bottom of the image, which is in Latin, is translated as: “When you become heaps, a sort of man, why do not you reject mortal things; Death is a common obligation to all fate. “What does it profit a man if hurt, one hundred centuries; When we die we think life has passed like the wind.” The banner is translated as: For you know neither day, nor the hour at” and cites the reference from the Biblical book of Matthew, chapter 25 verse 13 which states “Therefore watch, for you do not know the day, nor the hour.” The top translates as “thou come hither, anyone who in the world is visible to the whole.”

6,002.

That’s how many more COVID-19 deaths we’ll need in America before we equal the number of American deaths in WWI – 116,516.

Only 6,002 more to go.

Today, we started off with 109,846 COVID-19 deaths in America.

Tonight, we finish with 110,514.

That’s a difference of 668, or a 0.6081% increase, in the stretch of a 12-hour period.

If we continue at that rate, we’ll be there, and quite possibly surpass the mark, in 9 days, on June 16.

That’s just a mere 216 hours from now.

And, it’s but a 5.4309% increase from today’s closing numbers.

America’s COVID-19 deaths surpassed the combined total of deaths from the Korean and Vietnam Wars combined – 94,725 – on May 24, when on that day we reported 97,711 deaths.

Now, we’re about 9 days away from what could be argued is the WORST PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTER in this nation in over 100 years.

Mitigation has been abysmal.

Our healthcare systems were overwhelmed in VERY short order.

Without exception, COVID-19 has literally upended EVERYTHING in our nation.

L –  I – T – E – R – A – L – L – Y.