This letter is in response to the article in the Sept. 23 Salt Lake Tribune titled “U.S. coronavirus death toll tops 200K” and the subhead, “The ‘unfathomable’ number of dead, equally roughly to the population of Salt Lake City, is still climbing.”
I agree that any death is a sad time for any family, but why are we making such a ruckus over these particular deaths? According to the 2018 statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the total number of deaths in the United States for that year were 2,813,503. This averages to approximately 7,708 deaths per day. We don’t hear a daily death toll on the news about these deaths. Isn’t this just as “unfathomable”? Yet we don’t shut down the economy, color code our activities, require mask wearing and 6-foot distancing. It takes approximately 26 days to reach the 200K death toll for typical deaths. Let’s use some common sense, OK?
Bill Juszcak, West Jordan