We could have done something. But we didn’t.

More pointedly, Gov. Phil Scott could have done something. He is our leader, after all. But he didn’t.

Sometime during the first half of August, we recorded the 1,000th death attributed to the Covid-19 virus.

The moment passed quietly, without notice, buried in a routine statistical report. And that’s a damn shame.

Would it have been so hard for the governor to hold a brief, solemn event? Top administration officials, political leaders, and a sampling of those who have lost loved ones? Everyone holding a white flag? A few words, a moment of silence? A National Guard bugler playing Taps? Flags at half staff for a day? Is that too much to ask?

I guess it is.

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