One day after the Trump-inspired attack on the Capitol by a violent mob of delusional, Fox-watching, bullshit-believers, the U.S. reached a major milestone of COVID-19 fatalities. The threshold of more than 4,000 pandemic deaths in a single day was breached just as the insurrectionists breached the U.S. Capitol.

It’s staggering that this terrifying threshold, that puts a fine point on just how bad this raging pandemic has actually become, was overshadowed by a political catastrophe actively inspired by the science- and reality-denying president whose incompetence helped the virus spread like a biological wildfire.