In the absence of collective public gatherings, people are coming up with new ways to memorialize those who have died from COVID-19.In a recent 24-hour virtual vigil streamed live on Facebook, volunteers read out thousands of names, in an excruciating litany of loss.
This time, the names were read by people sitting alone, in kitchens and bedrooms, looking into a webcam.Anne Guynn has draped garlands of more than 3,600 paper hearts on a walnut tree in her family orchard, Ballard Walnut Grove, in Ballard, Calif. Each heart represents one California resident who has died from COVID-19.Anne Guynn has draped garlands of more than 3,600 paper hearts on a walnut tree in her family orchard, Ballard Walnut Grove, in Ballard, Calif.
For those not directly touched by the virus, Guynn says,"it's easy to feel like it's not really happening, or to disconnect from it. This is a way to say, 'No, it's happening.' And each heart is not just one person, but a whole family connected to that one person who is gone."
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More fear porn for the sheeps. Nice one.
I wish they would put one of these out in front of the White House.
Now do aborted baby names
it's great for one's mental health to keep thinking of and mourning dead people.
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