The numbers are uncertain, but mass death is at our doorstep. Those who survive this madness will have to figure out how to live together in the company of grief. I keep on swallowing.” That sense of fearful grief will be a persistent feature of our national politics moving forward. We are siloed, segregated and left to our own devices — all of which intensifies the depth of grief in the face of mass death. With such death, as Lewis put it, “the act of living is different all through.”We must attend to our national grief.

Source: Washington Post April 06, 2020 21:00 UTC