Everytime I hear "a 9/11 a day," I revert back to 13 and need to sit down for a moment til I can breathe again.

along the same vein...

As of May 7, 2020, 76,503 Americans are confirmed dead of COVID-19. To put this in perspective:

• 58, 209 Americans died in the Vietnam War (1961-1975)
• 54, 246  Americans died in the Korean War (1950-1953)
• 25, 000 Americans died in the American Revolution (1775-1783)
• 15, 000 Americans died in the War of 1812 (1812-1815)
• 13, 283 Americans died in the Mexican-American War  (1846-1848)
• 4,576 Americans died in the Iraq War (2003-2011)

Also:   The annual number of deaths in the USA from infectious disease is about 75,000. That’s twelve months’ worth of deaths.  We are slightly over the annual death count for infectious disease after only four months and seven days.

Don’t kid yourself that this is normal. This is not even remotely normal.