Okay, this is probably a really unpopular opinion, but doesn't it seem like the last couple years should have put 9/11 in perspective a little? Since the first death from Covid-19 in the US, 677,000 Americans have died. Whether or not this was an overt attack on us from China, or a response to what others may view as us overreaching or bullying, we have millions of Americans that have actively fought for the ability to worsen this pandemic, spreading it and killing other Americans in the process. Every single one of the past 561 days we've lost an average of over 1200 Americans. That's a 9/11 death toll every 3 days, non-stop for a year and a half, with many days where the single day total had more people die than on 9/11. Are we that imperialistic that the deaths of a couple thousand people two decades ago clearly at the hands of non-Americans is something that needs to be mourned incessantly, but the deaths of nearing three quarters of a million, many caused by other Americans, is seemingly just a political difference like any other and for half the country (the half that can't stop waving a fucking flag like they actually care about this nation and its citizens) not a big deal?

What am I missing here?