People will never get it that this is a really serious problem.

ignorance v. desensitization

not pretty if either happens.

the numbers need to be humanized.

to do something like when there is a mass shooting, if that's what you're getting at.

If somebody who is well known in their field passes, then there are stories of those people. That's about as much as anybody can handle at this point, both from a reporting standpoint, and the ability of readers/viewers to handle.

Perhaps some mass memorial like the 9/11 one may be erected some day, once the total is known.

and let their death be filmed and broadcast. It's one thing to hear about a death. It's another to watch helplessly as one occurs.

It is going to happen. No matter how hard the hospitals try to stop it, it will happen. Then the story will change.

You will even be feeling it way more as this goes on. Without the numbers to remind us we grow distant from the reality. We need to be fully engaged so as to have an honest reaction.

of soldiers recently killed during the nightly news. That had quite an impact on our pubic. Perhaps we need to do that now - showing name, age and town of residence.

The downstream damage from this pandemic will show in innumerable ways for perhaps a hundred years or more. Just 3-months ago we were talking about the lasting damaging due to tRump's administration and Brexit across the pond in terms of decades.

Now, the USA and the UK are dealing with double-hits like perhaps never seen before.

I hope we all look a bit past our own misery and remember those in impoverished nations who will have their own double-hit with poverty and COVID-19, and with little or no voice to be heard.........

or disease, in this case) are shown, it becomes so painful that people turn away.

I'm sad we aren't getting all the stories, but maybe it is the only way to cope right now.