Disease o/w nuclear war
Steinberg 22, [Neil Steinberg is a columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times, You’re not fine and neither am I, January 4, https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2022/1/4/22866698/covid-chicago-coronavirus-fatigue-pandemic-omicron-remote-work-school-vaccine-cold-war-nuclear-scare]
First, the Cold War mentality. We thought we were going to die, blown up by the Russians. Or by two crazy officers firing a missile. None of that happened. COVID-19 is far worse than nuclear annihilation, because it has killed millions of people worldwide. In 2021, more Americans died of the coronavirus than Japanese died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki — combined. Still, we’ve never been terrified of COVID-19 the way we were afraid of those atomic bombs. I’m not sure why.