So this morning on TV there was some event where they were reading the names of all the dead

[RockRaven]

from 9/11... I find a long list of names read aloud, like at graduations, stultifying but it's 20 years to the day so I get what they were going for.

If we started doing similar programs for Covid, we would have to broadcast twice a week for over two years just to clear the backlog up to today, and by then there would be two years worth of backlog (but smaller, most likely, thank you vaccines). Still, twice a week, new names every broadcast, for three or four years... What this virus -- and the behavior of these oppositional assholes who make the pandemic worse on purpose -- is costing us is hard to fathom.

[rickyhall]

1. Eventually we should build a Covid Memorial like the Viet Nam Memorial

[marybourg]

2. Yes, that's the annual 9/11 memorial held at

the World Trade Center site and Memorial. Every year survivors and families read the name of every victim and ring a memorial bell. Been happening for 20 years now.

[Phentex]

3. The same thing crossed my mind!

All this talk about not making this political but the damage was done by the assholes in charge at the start of the pandemic. Domestic terrorism is what it is.

[Polly Hennessey]

4. They should also read all the names of those

who died in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Or all of those who died in war and that includes the war on COVID and the January 6 names. After a period of time it becomes less meaningful.

[Treefrog]

5. They've done this for every year, including this one.

[Bucky]

6. Should we include the names of people who died....

because they couldn't get into an ER due to covid crowding? What about those who couldn't get a cancer screen? Or couldn't schedule a hip replacement?

Covid, or rather the country's mishandling of covid, killed them too