Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Those we've lost
The New York Times has an excellent feature titled Those We've Lost, profiling people like Detroit Police Chief Benny Napoleon (pictured). They all died of COVID this year, part of the 1 in every 1,000 Americans who perished.
That number-- 1 in 1,000-- seems small until you consider the number of people most of us know or know of. And, of course, we all do know or know of someone special who has died, it seems.
It will take a while before we realize the shape of this wreath of tragedy, and of course the pandemic is not yet done with us.
Needless to say, this is what marked 2020 as different.
