A makeshift morgue sits outside of Lenox Health Greenwich Village facility to handle an expected surge in coronavirus victims.

As of Monday evening, coronavirus has killed more people in the U.S. than 9/11. Which, as you may recall if you were there at the time, was an event so big that it Changed Everything and was worth any level of governmental response. Republicans got two wars out of 9/11, but now front-line health care workers can’t even get enough masks.

The more than 3,000 deaths and counting included 500 on Monday alone, as the Trump administration started preparing Americans for the prospect of hundreds of thousands of deaths before this is all over. It’s a far cry from two months ago, when Trump said, “We have it very well under control.” Or one month ago, when he was saying, “We’re going very substantially down, not up” and “It’s going to disappear. One day—it’s like a miracle—it will disappear.”