I read a whole bunch of mostly maudlin articles about 9/11

I probably shouldn't've, and I knew it at the time, but I did it anyway. In between sniffling and feeling sad I had bouts of entirely unreasonable anger at, yet again, the ridiculous emphasis on Stuyvesant High School to the exclusion of all else. A profile on various people suffering from 9/11 linked illnesses - two stories about Stuy kids, not one about anybody who taught or was a student at any other school in the area. They could've found somebody if they'd bothered to look. An article on the boat rescue - "Students had to be evacuated from Stuyvesant High School...." Like, would it be so hard to say "from local schools" instead? Even "From local schools including...." would have been better, because it is not the only high school in the area.

I know it feels like I'm ranting about nothing for no reason, and I kinda am, but I'm also kinda not. The obsession the city has with that school is wrong, and it's absolutely bad for those students. I knew multiple students when I attended who admitted outright that they didn't want to be there, but their parents basically forced them. (Smart enough to get a good score on the SHSAT, not smart enough not to, I guess.) It's not a good thing that this school takes up so much parental focus in some families.

1 in 500 Americans are now dead of Covid

I think that's the confirmed number, the real number is surely higher. Perhaps higher still if the number of people who died of non-covid reasons they would have survived if not for the pandemic (e.g. suicide, overdose, anything that they were scared to go to the hospital over) is greater than the number of people who didn't die of non-covid reasons (e.g. car crashes, flu, asthma).

Well, shit. I don't even know what to do with this information.