Memorializing Those Who Died In The Time Of COVID-19
Since it's impossible to hold mass public gatherings to mourn those who have died of COVID-19, people are creating new ways to memorialize the dead.
Virtual vigils, streamed live on Facebook.
Websites that collate the names and photos of the dead.
Video projections of those we have lost, shining onto building facades.
In the absence of collective public gatherings, people are coming up with new ways to memorialize those who have died from COVID-19.
Perhaps the simplest, most essential gesture is to say their names.
In a recent 24-hour virtual vigil streamed live on Facebook, volunteers read out thousands of names, in an excruciating litany of loss.
Naming the dead has become a familiar ritual in other national tragedies, a
