[...] how easily the bereaved normalize their losses
What this massive record of human suffering really illustrates (in all its startling, repetitive sameness) is how seamlessly anti-vax communities reconcile themselves to the deaths their convictions will perpetuate. The posts about individual liberty and self-sufficiency devolve into abjectly dependent appeals: A call to “prayer warriors” is almost a required feature at this point in a r/HermanCainAward entry.
When someone dies, the grief is gentle and generic: He was a good guy, he got his angel wings today, it was his time, God called him home.
And yet:
Chilled though I’ve been by how this subreddit can rejoice at a death,
I’m somehow no less chilled by how easily the bereaved normalize their
losses.*
[...] as we drift further into an anti-apocalypse; an event which mutes revelation and casts its transient shroud across our collective horizons. That is, until we can grasp the historical as well as the natural genesis of the present conjuncture—to understand that the present epoch is not the consequence of an eternal order but the work of human hands; hands which, if conscious of the work they do, can just as well halt what they set in motion.**
*** the seventh seal
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