You're correct that people are not mourning publicly. Two reasons right off the bat: 1. some people - people who are unemployed, perhaps homeless with families don't have time for grief because they are too busy coping with survival.

Obvious reason number two: We're all in shock. Public mourning amidst the COVID pandemic besides being dangerous to survival is overwhelming.

Reason #1 - the people who are not working from home who have lost their jobs more often than not have already been living with grief and focused on survival for themselves and their families. This grief that many feel has been going on for decades do to working more and seeing less for it.

It could be argued that everyone but the 1% have been living in a sea of grief for decades. That fear of grief and its expression could lead to depression. How can one express grief when America's Common Good has been stripped away and replaced by assets, money, a "me-first" philosophy at the expense of the Common Good? Therefore grief is repressed and /or suppressed. When injustices occur as with George Floyd we as an entire people are reminded that slavery still exists albeit in another form. This is overwhelmingly heartbreaking.

The deaths from COVID when suffering and survival are so closely intertwined leave no room for a current public mourning at this time.

Voting and the support of the vote is a good statement and driving force towards the Common Good. Its easier to point out what’s wrong with the system than to find a way to support and promote the Common Good while including those who live reactively in fear of the “Me-First” Group.

I hunger for leadership that can couch a dialog for the possibility of communication between the divisiveness to uncover what we all yearn towards: peace, reconciliation, a return to productiveness, prosperity for all, a sensible way out of the COVID Pandemic — and preparedness for new health threats.