Not a movie review

[malada]

There's a scene in the anti-war movie "Harold and Maude" where the odd couple are picnicking. The shot starts with the two of them and then pulls out to reveal a cemetery; Golden Gate National Cemetery - an army cemetery established at the beginning of World War 2. The shot just goes on and on and on as it reveals the huge amount of graves just in that one corner of that cemetery. For me, it was the most striking and stunning scene in the movie. The cost of war laid bare.

According to their website, the cemetery has over 137,000 people buried there.

Arlington National Cemetery has over 400,000

The number of deaths due to COVID - greater than both cemeteries combined by *over* 100,000.

-m

I do recommend the movie.

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[siliconshaman]

There was an art project recently, each participating country created a memorial for those that died of COVID by placing small white flags in the ground. America's filled the park around the Washington Memorial with several blocks of a thousand per block.

Britain's filled a large chunk of Hyde Park

New Zealand's was a ring around a tree, and not even a large tree.

It kind of hit home the disparity between when you get the pandemic response right, and not.