we've been abandoned by our government (not that they cared anyways), and we're forced to go to work because of that fact. Individualism and american exceptionalism has poisoned the country, no one gives a fuck about each other, and we're all gonna fucking die because of some fucking rich colonials that thought we were special
One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic. 300,000 dead Americans is still less than 1 out of 1,000. Most people don't know 1000 people well enough to be that consumed with grief. It's a lot of dead people, but spread out over a relatively long period and effecting mostly people you "expect" to die (old, sick, etc). That's how you get a crisis where most people only feel a vague sense of unease, if anything at all.