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Welcome to the Benjamin Dixon show.

I am your host Benjamin Dixon.

Today is Monday, May 25th.

It is Memorial Day in 2020.

Thanks so much for joining me.

The New York Times Sunday paper, Front Page, was a list of names.

Only the first thousand of over are quickly approaching 100,000 people who have died from the

coronavirus and those are just official deaths. We are quickly approaching that threshold over 100,000 and it has not even been three months into this pandemic since we began in this point in earnest,

quarantineing, self-quarantining,

and social distancing.

We have at this point

97,00049 death

across the United States, 1.6 million cases.

The backdrop of that, of course, is the fact that we are at a level of we're desensitized to put it simply

We I don't know that we can actually

Understand or comprehend the sheer magnitude of how many people have died in the last two months, three months.

There's a movie that I watched or actually I didn't finish watching it but I started watching it and at the very beginning of the movie

The name of the movie is seven splinters in time at the beginning it gives a quote that is attributed to Anna Freud the daughter of

Sigmund Freud and the quote says that repetition is how we master a trauma.

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