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one of the worst things about the 24/7 news cycle is how it’s hindered our ability to conceptualize loss and process grief. there’s been over 138K COVID-19 deaths in the US, but unless it has personally affected you, it’s so easy to hear that and dismiss that number
when in reality, all of those 138K people had valuable lives, families who loved them, communities that needed them, and have now left behind hundreds to grieve and mourn them. yet, we’re so densensitized to it which is why it’s so easy for unaffected people to go out sans mask
it reminds me of how the news would cover the “War on Terror” and how Black and brown bodies were merely “collateral damage” in the way of a bigger mission, when these were actually countless women & children, families, and communities being killed and destroyed senselessly
by dehumanizing people like this, it only makes it easier for the media and government to allow this death to continue to happen and for unaffected people to live their lives without feeling outrage and a desire to change things
