President Biden warned Americans this evening not to allow the staggering number of Covid-19 deaths to lead to numbness, insensitivity or apathy.
“We have to resist falling asleep for grief,” Biden said, speaking from the White House when the United States passed half a million dead through Covid-19. “We have to resist seeing every life as a statistic, a blur or a news story.”
Biden said Americans now owe the dead to continue the fight against the virus and defeat it.
“We need to do this to honor the dead, but an equally important cure for the living, those who are left behind, loved ones who are left behind,” he said.
Biden was inspired by his own life marked by the sudden death of two of his children and his first wife, saying he knew what it was like to suffer losses.
“I know all too well, I know what it means not to be there when it happens,” he said. “And I know what it’s like when you’re there, holding his hands, the look in your eyes as they walk away, that black hole in your chest, you feel like they were sucking you.”
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