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.
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.