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It always blows my mind to hear people describe the deaths of others as ‘just’ 300 dead, or whatever other awful figure they’re describing.
Picture their faces, their lives, their hopes and dreams and aspirations cut short. Think about their families with a seat at the table empty, their friends who couldn’t see them before they lost them.
We’ve become so desensitised to numbers, all people’s lives are touched by grief at some point, with the loss of usually one person at a time. Imagine all the thousands of people feeling what you felt and their deaths being minimised.
Whatever you think about the pandemic, let’s not brush over lives cut short. I don’t believe we’ll feel the full impact of global loss for many years, and I can understand if someone wouldn’t want to, but it’s so insensitive to describe a ridiculous figure with ‘just’.
As someone who is chronically ill, I know I’m sensitive to the ‘just the old and sick’ tweets as that applies to 23 yr old me too, the old and sick have lives too, not to mention the young healthy snatched away. May they RIP, let us not lose our humanity along with the victims.
