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While the recent violence in Afghanistan has now shifted the discussion somewhat, what also unsettled me as we started approaching the 20th anniversary was how very few people were talking about 9/11 anymore. Leaving aside both my issues and the evident symbolism to this column of death that reduced life to a hyper-digitalized speck of dust, what also struck was the comparisons invited with the World Trade Center, whose shadow cast its ominous presence over the years that followed. Mapped out on a vertical grid, each victim of the virus appeared as a black dot, whose dense granulations were meant to emphasize the depths and duration of suffering. While this devasting milestone had evident numerical resonance when thinking about the scale of the loss, just as remarkable was the way the newspaper chose to represent the tragedy. On Sunday, February 21, 2021, The New York Times featured a headline story marking 500,000 COVID-19 deaths. The impetus for this volume can also be traced to a very specific date in time. As many across the world watched in horror as the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City unfolded, we were left in no doubt that a tremendous force was being unleashed, whose impacts would be felt for decades to come.
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Others are so momentous, so tragic, they open a wound in time so powerful they appear to steer history in a different direction. WHAT IS IN a date? Some days can feel altogether irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
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