20,000 Chairs in front of White House Memorialize COVID Victims
At the time of this blog, more than 220,000 Americans have died of coronavirus. On Sunday, October 4, a chilling visual symbol of those deaths spread out on the grassy Ellipse near the White House. Twenty thousand empty chairs, each one memorializing ten victims of the disease, stood in vast ranks, as if waiting for a terrible ghost audience.
The group responsible for creating the memorial was Covid Survivors for Change, composed of family members of both victims and survivors of COVID. “These are our grandparents, our parents, our siblings, children, coworkers, and neighbors,” the event’s website states. “We are all at risk. No one is immune from this pandemic. This crisis is not over.”
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