Today is Sunday, February 7th. I heard something the other day about how when a death toll reaches a certain number, people begin to check out a bit. It doesn't mean as much to the public as it does when a single person dies, or an entire family dies in a freak accident. When the deaths reach into the hundreds, and then thousands, people cannot absorb it. Perhaps that is happening now. One of my college friends lost her mother to COVID, a Seattle friend we know from the theat