• DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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        7 hours ago

        First thing that occurred to me:

        Deaths from trail of Tears: 6,000-8,000

        Deaths from first Covid-19 pandemic in the United States between March and June 2020: 125,000

        • tamal3@lemmy.world
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          7 hours ago

          Numbers surely don’t tell the whole story. What happened to the Cherokee was a dramatic loss for many reasons, and basically amounted to genocide or ethnic cleansing. That’s very much where the USA is (or is headed) right now, too. Loss of life due to covid was a tragedy, but it has nothing on the evil that was the Trail of Tears.