"Never Forget" Means Not Forgetting the 318,981 People Killed By Our Selfishness

Two important questions you should ask the people loudly shouting about "Unity" and "Never Forget" on 9/11

9/11 should be a national holiday. In the same way, Pearl Harbor Day should be a national holiday.

Neither are.

But the more days off we have where national service is encouraged, the better.

We need to spend way more time together, doing something positive for our community, and way less time on the Internet in our respective echo chambers.

So, today is a short post about what we owe each other.

Because you’re going to hear a whole lot of people say stuff like “Never forget” and talk about how “unified” we were in the days and weeks immediately following the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon, in Pennsylvania from a flight heading toward either the White House or the Capitol Building, and the World Trade Center.

When you hear people say that today, you should ask them two questions:

Did you get your COVID-19 vaccination?

Did you wear a mask — and I mean properly wear a mask, not this horseshit where people would put it on and not cover their nose — when asked to do so?

Because if the answer is