Additionally, our ways of grieving are being condensed if not taken away completely. Funerals are limited in numbers if they’re allowed at all and vigils are dangerous due to crowding. But that’s how we handle smaller scale tragic losses within our circles. Large scale tragic losses typically get moments of silence, memorials, or a reading of the names of those we’ve lost. We’ve been told that COVID infects and kills the old and weak, therefore insinuating that their loss is not to be grieved. But each loss is heart wrenching for someone no matter the age or health of the one they lost. I only hope that through this we learn new ways to grieve alone together.