May 24, the Sunday before Memorial Day, the New York Times devoted its customary patriotic-image-filled front page to a stark black and white list of names to mark the “grim milestone” of “incalculable loss” as the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in the United States approaches 100,000.
Almost all of them within a three-month span, an average of more than 1,100 deaths a day, each with “individual arcs of life, the 100,000 ways of greeting the morning and saying good night.” But, notes The Times, “A number is an imperfect measure when applied to the human condition.
One. Hundred. Thousand.” The four-page, 16-column tribute of almost 1,000 names and pithy characteristic was culled from obituaries in more than 100 newspapers to
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