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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Fri May 22 11:39:43 2020, in response to Did you know there is a pandemic going on?, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Wed Feb 5 10:09:58 2020. Flags are lowered to half staff for 3 days.--------- Little sense of shared grief as virus deaths near 100,000 WASHINGTON — For months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the nation ached together in televised memorials, joining in a collective catharsis of uniformed salutes, bagpiped dirges and President George W. Bush declaring a national day of mourning and remembrance. The space shuttle Challenger explosion in 1986 turned classrooms into grieving sessions, with President Reagan directly addressing the national wounds. The Japanese attack on Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor in 1941 was a day that President Franklin D. Roosevelt said would live in “infamy,” uniting the mainland to enter a world war. Yet as the nation nears 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 — far more than all those tragic events combined or the entire Vietnam War — there is little sense this Memorial Day weekend that Americans are grieving together or uniting in a sense of purpose. While Americans have shared undeniable hardships since March — including more than 38 million people forced to file for unemployment, and tens of millions more forced to hunker down at home to avoid the contagion — the carnage is hitting them unevenly. “I don’t think we’re taking this in,” said David Kessler, an author of six books on grief. “It’s easy to digest a statistic. It is not easy to digest 12 plane crashes a day,” Kessler said. “Especially when there are no visuals. We aren’t seeing 90,000 caskets. That kind of stuff would shock us. Maybe this is too big for us to comprehend.” === The article as a whole is a partial waste of time. If you see my original post here about the Democratic response, versus Mrs. Bierman and Stokols bullshit blame Trump only fable, you can see that my bolded portion of the article is the reason we will always be the Infected States of America. United is deleted. |
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