Last summer, I paused and considered the magnitude of 100,000 deaths due to COVID-19. Just seven or eight short months later, we now have five times that number. It is devastating to see, and it grieves me that we have met this number and will soon exceed it. I find it hard to fathom a half a million deaths as I try to write about the magnitude of this loss.
What I do understand; is the one.
The one empty chair at 500,000 dinner tables across our country and the families and friends that endure.
Today, we remember them.