Thank you John. We seem to forget the central point of our democracy: "of/by&for the people". What follows is not a reproach to the the theme of your column, it is more to the burden of mass death we've witnessed and as you note are responsible for.
As with the recounting of all wars, ours about Covid must concentrate on the dead – the people who suffered most. Sadly, it is almost never the case that the dead have a place in the retelling when wars end. One president commits negligent homicide and gets off and will never shut up, 74 million citizens suffer the unhinged outrage of required masking and all the media will never stop fussing about them, 81 million citizens commit the decent act of voting out the worst president in US history and murmur among ourselves about our common sense...yet hundreds of thousands of dead people remain mute and unacknowledged and gone.
Speak of the dead – speak for the dead – they cannot speak for themselves. In the reckoning, the dead are unrepresented. The survivors won't ever shut up about it; the dead have no voice.
Thank you John. We seem to forget the central point of our democracy: "of/by&for the people". What follows is not a reproach to the the theme of your column, it is more to the burden of mass death we've witnessed and as you note are responsible for.
As with the recounting of all wars, ours about Covid must concentrate on the dead – the people who suffered most. Sadly, it is almost never the case that the dead have a place in the retelling when wars end. One president commits negligent homicide and gets off and will never shut up, 74 million citizens suffer the unhinged outrage of required masking and all the media will never stop fussing about them, 81 million citizens commit the decent act of voting out the worst president in US history and murmur among ourselves about our common sense...yet hundreds of thousands of dead people remain mute and unacknowledged and gone.
Speak of the dead – speak for the dead – they cannot speak for themselves. In the reckoning, the dead are unrepresented. The survivors won't ever shut up about it; the dead have no voice.