What We Ought to Do

Yesterday, the New York Times printed up a front-page which basically said: "US Deaths Near 100,000,   An Incalculable Loss."

It consumed the entire front-page.

So I sat and pondered upon it.  In this time of great grieving....we ought to honor these folks with a memorial.  So here is my suggestion.  I'd like to take the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri (3-million acres) and at the very edge of it....erect a fine marble type monument to honor the 100,000-plus folks who died of Covid-19/China-virus/Coronavirus.

Yes, I do realize that some folks won't be happy with China-virus being uttered but it is what it is.

Cost factor?  Minimum of 50-million dollars. 

We'd have a fine ceremony with all of Congress flown in to make speeches over the dead, with President Trump delivering a beautiful speech in honor of the dead and their accomplishments in life.

Next to this monument, I'd also like to erect a memorial (made of marble as well), for the 8 to 10 thousand who died in the 2019-2020 flu season, We'd also have a fine ceremony for them, with Congress and the President delivering speeches.

Next to this monument, I'd also like to erect a memorial (made of marble as well), for the 80,000 who eid in the 2018-2019 flu season.  We'd also have a fine ceremony for them, with Congress and the President delivering speeches.

By the time I'm done.....there would be a minimum of 200 memorials laid out and consuming 20-percent of the National Forest area.  At least one entire year would be required for all the speeches and ribbon-cutting episodes. 

Marble folks would be employed for an entire decade....accomplishing this great feat.

All of us, with kin-folk who'd died in the past two-hundred years.....would feel proud of our relatives and we could always drive up to the Ozarks to see the forty-odd memorials that we were part of. 

Naturally, the NY Times could have a front-page display for each single episode.