"...225,000"

Today 83,010 new cases of the COVID Virus were reported.

There are about 1000 deaths a day…give or take. 225,000 perished in this Republic in eight months. This is our new normal.

It just goes on as plagues do. Upside this is still the 21st century so a vaccine is coming. Last time 1918 we had to ride it out on our own. Across the country the human story continues.

Family members friends get sick die or are traumatized.

Medical workers from surgeons to orderlies are working heroically at great cost to themselves, and their families. A political party a TV network, and our head of state combine to deny the seriousness of the entire experience.

There has yet from that individual or those institutions in near a year come a mention of national condolence. No statement or national memorial. Nor any sincere encouragements.

Our national trauma has yet to be officially acknowledged from the highest office. This leaves us emotionally adrift in this sea of apprehension, and mourning.

One day this will end as it did before.

Last time 1918. That event that pandemic was culturally forgotten. The only marks a paragraph or two. A footnote with a few grainy photographs in some, but not all history books. This time we need to remember. We need to acknowledge what this was, and why it was allowed to become so overwhelming,…and by who.