Naming the Lost

Join us in building memorials to the nearly 210,000 loved ones lost to COVID in the US. Sign up & find resources at our website #NamingTheLost

[Chelsea Watson @chelsea_wats]

THREAD: As #Omicron surges and our systems strain, I wanted to share my #COVID19 experience in NYC last month. It was actually a hopeful window into what a society where we look out for one another and a government that is set up to truly care for us could look like.

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

I wrote about how the American death toll from COVID-19 is now greater than the death toll of the Civil War (750,000).

Behind these numbers are real people. One of them was Yvonne Brown. I attended her funeral last week. She was 41. This is still with us. https://t.co/LXlccc0HML

[Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4]

Over the course of the last 14 months, we collected the names of loved ones & neighbors in our community taken from us during the pandemic. Today, we placed our #CovidMemorial banner at the entrance of our public library to honor their lives & care for one another. #NamingTheLost

[Jews for Racial & Economic Justice Action @JFREJNYC]

#NamingtheLost in Red Hook.

If you lost a loved one to COVID-19 in a nursing home and would like their name included in a memorial, we invite you to fill out this form: https://t.co/QZV3nWLyOB.

[NY Caring Majority 🍎 @CaringMajority]

This memorial was created in recognition of the 15K in nursing homes who were taken from us.

Sadly, their names are not available to us, but we know they were people who were cherished — people who were parents, siblings, mentors, teachers, neighbors, friends.—@alexaforcouncil

[Naming the Lost @namingthelost]

15,000 loved ones, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, mentors, teachers, neighbors, and friends.

15,000 lives stolen from us because New York State treats elders & disabled people as disposable.

[Naming the Lost @namingthelost]

We are here today to honor the dead & fight like hell for the living. #NamingTheLost #FairPay4HomeCare

[Naming the Lost @namingthelost]

Nothing will ever bring back the 15,000 cherished lives stolen by COVID-19 in NY nursing homes. But we can do everything in our power to ensure nothing like this ever happens again. #NamingTheLost

[Jews for Racial & Economic Justice Action @JFREJNYC]

This is today at noon in Red Hook BK -- join us to mourn the 15K loved ones who died of COVID in nursing homes in 2020.

We will honor each and every person, and we will fight like hell to save the millions of people who still need #FairPay4HomeCare to survive.

[Naming the Lost @namingthelost]

#NobodyIsDisposable, and all of us count.

If you lost a loved one to COVID-19 in a nursing home and would like their name included in a #NamingTheLost memorial, we invite you to fill out this form: https://t.co/dBOAqoEbDx.

[Naming the Lost @namingthelost]

March 25th: One year ago today, the Cuomo administration issued a directive that led to 9,000 recovering coronavirus patients being transferred from hospitals into nursing homes. #NamingTheLost

[Naming the Lost @namingthelost]

We now know that New York lost nearly 15,000 people to COVID-19 in nursing homes, several thousand more than Cuomo previously counted.

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

This morning @WNYC is @namingthelost #NamingTheLost

[Kristin Urquiza @kdurquiza.bsky.social @kdurquiza]

I'm spending this #MartinLutherKingDay putting together a memorial to #COVID victims. Picture after picture, name after name. It's devastating. Please join me tomorrow and RT to honor all 400,000 lives cut short, including my Dad. #MarkedByCOVID https://t.co/r9DvypP124

[💙 Marked by COVID @MarkedByCovid]

We hope you can join us & @Lets_Reimagine tomorrow for an online vigil and Reflections, a community group-watch of the National #CovidMemorial.

#MarkedByCOVID #COVID19 #COVIDMemorialDay
https://t.co/73WTbQGbbI

[Biden Inaugural Committee @BidenInaugural]

On Tuesday, January 19, join us for a nationwide moment of unity as we honor and remember the 400,000 American lives lost to COVID-19.

#COVIDMemorial

[Naming the Lost @namingthelost]

THIS ⬇️

[Saeed Jones @theferocity]

I think we should have a federal holiday to honor the people we’ve lost to COVID. It’s the least we can do to make space for all the grief chaos has forced us to displace.