On this week's On the Media, we shudder, we worry, we shelter, we zoom, but with almost 100,000 COVID dead, do we as a nation grieve?

Each day, we're seeing a thousand or two thousand people dying as if we're having a new 9-11 every two days.

Something has changed dramatically since 9-11

with regards to our ability as a nation

to set aside politics and mourn together.

Today is a day for mourning and remembering.

Nancy and I are pain to the core

by the tragedy of the shuttle challenger.

We know we share this.

What we want to try and do is figure out a way that death isn't just a graph going up and going down,

but our full sentences for a full life.

In my earliest obits in the early 1800s, people were resigned to their fate,

and their obit would say she was ready to meet the summons of her God.

The processing of mass death after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Today, a thousand and another thousand and another thousand is our lead.

This morning, with nearly every state in the nation relaxing at least some restrictions, the U.S. reaching a grim milestone.

One and a half million cases of COVID with the death toll nearing 90,000.

The U.S. death toll stands at 88,101.

The CDC projected today it'll be at 100,000 by June 1st.

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