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Who deserves a funeral?

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  • George KG Offline
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    George K
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    https://spectator.us/coronavirus-funerals-john-lewis-george-floyd/

    No one would argue that Rep. John Lewis doesn’t deserve a proper memorial. He was a civil rights icon and a long-serving member of Congress who was beloved by his colleagues. In the middle of a pandemic, however, how do we decide who gets the pomp and circumstance of a traditional burial and who has to watch their loved one go six feet under via Zoom call?

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      https://spectator.us/coronavirus-funerals-john-lewis-george-floyd/

      No one would argue that Rep. John Lewis doesn’t deserve a proper memorial. He was a civil rights icon and a long-serving member of Congress who was beloved by his colleagues. In the middle of a pandemic, however, how do we decide who gets the pomp and circumstance of a traditional burial and who has to watch their loved one go six feet under via Zoom call?

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      @George-K my first thought when I saw some of the coverage.

      Though I didn’t know Georgia’s funeral rules.

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        Who's this "we"? Who gets buried how is decided by the survivors or admirers of the deceased. Does COVID convey some sort of larger "we" who get to establish the rules about this? Am I too far off in guessing that this writer would be happy to be a part of the "we"? And that the writer is white?

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          It's an excellent point/question. I didn't give it too much thought the other day until I saw a tweet from someone who was burying his father the next day and was limited to 10. He said, matter of factly, "I guess my father wasn't important".

          Only non-witches get due process.

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          • LarryL Offline
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            Lewis had around 28 funerals, seems like..

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            • MikM Offline
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              With 100+ at each one. While other Americans are limited to 10.

              Leona Helmsley smiled.

              “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                Link to video

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                  “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                      Idiots

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                      • George KG Offline
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                        Exempt

                        attendees to the Atlanta funeral of the late Rep. John Lewis are exempt from following the District of Columbia's strict quarantine rules after returning home from Georgia, the D.C. mayor's office says. ..

                        Under current District of Columbia rules, all of those individuals would normally be required to self-quarantine for two weeks upon returning to D.C. City Mayor Muriel Bowser's recent quarantine order dictates that any individual traveling to a "high-risk area" for "non-essential" reasons must self-quarantine for 14 days upon entering the District.

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                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                          Jeebus.

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                            Again, Leona smiled.

                            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                              Racism trumps covid

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                                Racism trumps covid

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                                @Copper said in Who deserves a funeral?:

                                Racism trumps covid

                                COVID don't care.

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