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.
Fair enough. Part of my reasoning why we wouldn't see this kind of movement, though, is how easily americans accepted mass death from COVID. This is anecdotal, obviously, but my entire workplace and most of my social circle have believed that the pandemic is over since about June.
imo the best possible response to anyone mentioning a general strike should be "Hell yeah, let's do it." Even if we're not literally going to lay out the date and time in a Hexbear comment section, we should absolutely be encouraging the notion at every possible opportunity. The more we do, the more people will be willing to participate, until it actually starts to manifest.