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"Acknowledge the war has changed"

Maybe it has? For example, DC has reported 11 homicides since its last reported COVID death.

Well it’s a good thing homicides aren’t a contagious disease then right? If not it might be under the jurisdiction of the Center For Disease Control.

Google for 'gun violence epidemic' and you will find lots of high profile results pretending it is.

I mean it is, it’s not a contagious pathogen.

Unless you think it’s normal that American society has more mass shootings than I can keep track of in recent memory then i’d call it an epidemic.

People walking into churches, schools, concerts, etc… and indiscriminately killing people is a deep sickness in American society.

Sometimes I forget I need to explain humor or irony and I am not even the native English speaker. But I accept this as my fault.

This is an unfair comparison because covid death reporting lags far behind other data