When are the million people who died during Covid going to get their proper funerals, with eulogies and flowers and meals together and memorials? I feel like there is a bizarre gap in time from 2020 on that nobody is acknowledging. Wondering how many of you mourn a loved one and never got to properly send them off in a lovely way. This is one of those closed doors I am staring at.

@elbutterfield

In 2019, the Vermont Pandemic of 1918 bench was finally upgraded to a monument. (Yes, the irony is strong in this one.)

Societies as a whole prefer to move past uncontrollable disasters, even if the loss of life exceeds a war.

I do think it's sad that families lost the opportunity for closure and remembrance.

Maybe plan a short memorial at a family reunion?

https://www.mynbc5.com/article/vermont-spanish-flu-memorial-covid-coronavirus/38173057

@Cosmichomicide

"Societies as a whole prefer to move past uncontrollable disasters, even if the loss of life exceeds a war."

I think you have hit upon the crux of the matter. We just can't afford psychologically to acknowledge the enormity of the loss. It's too damaging to society.

@Cosmichomicide But I love the point that @stueytheround made: many communities have their own public memorials. "Small, local, and personal to those communities. Possibly easier to fund as well." We may be left to our own devices to remedy the ache of losses unhonored.