What would collective acts of grief look like? Entire processions marching in black? Vigils for those that died of covid? Twitter bots listing their bios and faces for each victim.
We can write entire books on the victims of 9/11 but we have the equivalent of 1 9/11 in victims every month or so and we shrug our shoulders.
There was a shooting at the grad school I was attending that killed a few students. Within the day people in my cohort were asking if exams would get canceled. Not because they were bad people but because they had the expectation that the expectations of them wouldn’t change in the face of tragedy and they needed to plan their weeks accordingly. Really broke my brain for a second there and I remember being severely depressed thinking about how nightmarish and inhuman the society we’ve created is
I deal with a lot of professors and students worked through covid and would apologize for late submissions because family members died or they themselves were sick - the mindset to just be productive is just harmful.