Wu, there is a reason whenever 9/11 is brought up it's always to mention how horrible it was, but never focusing on the number of people that died. Despite being a tragedy, the number of people who died in the September 11 attacks is just not that big in the grand scheme of things.
9/11 only became as etched into people's memories as it did because:
1) The sheer shock it caused on the USA and overall brutality of the attack. Nobody expected something like that to happen and the way the victims lost their lives are horrifying, be it suffocating, burning, dying from the crash itself or throwing themselves from the building.
2) It was a big terrorist attack on the United States of America in it's own territory. It becoming that infamous in America eventually made it become known in the whole world, as american culture is exported to everywhere one way or another.
Don't misunderstand me, it was an horrible tragedy in which a lot of innocent people lost their lives and an entire nation was left afraid and in mourning. But looking at it with emotions aside, from a strictly numerical perspective, the amount of victims pales in comparison to other events that have happened both before and after it and are not even given a passing mention because they didn't stick on people's memories as 9/11 did.
And yes, let's gather everyone, hold our hands and sing Kumbaya as a memorial service for the departed while the easily spread disease that killed people is still going strong. What could possibly go wrong there?
Even if Trump declared a national day of mouring for people to pray in their homes for the ones who died, people like Wu would just attack him for it. I can already see Twitter:"YOU ARE THE CAUSE OF THESE DEATHS, YOU DIDN'T HELP THOSE PEOPLE AND NOW YOU PRETEND TO CARE? FUCK OFF." "THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS WILL REALLY HELP NOW. DRINK BLEACH YOU IDIOT. #IMPEACH" and other assorted REEEEEEEEing.
