WE’RE NO. 1!

Breaking News: Covid deaths in the U.S. surpassed 800,000, the highest known number of any country in the world. https://t.co/NZjAnVZSyo pic.twitter.com/KBieNaUAwK

— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 15, 2021

Have yourself a Merry Little Xmas. In this best of all countries in the world.*

The bells of the National Cathedral are tolling out across Washington now to mark 800,000 US COVID deaths -- a sad new ritual of this pandemic era they have observed as we have passed each 100,000 deaths. #remembrance

— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) December 15, 2021

"I heard the bells/on Christmas Day…”

I know I've posted this before but this quote from Mark Shields is always in my head: "I learned from my- my mom and my dad, my family, was that every one of us has been warmed by fires we did not build and every one of us has drunk from wells we did not dig."

— John Dickerson (@jdickerson) December 16, 2021

*I grew up in a town with fewer people than this. To grasp it I have to imagine the entire population of the town of my childhood wiped out. And then another city or two nearby.