Absolutely gutting to see. And this isn't even the full up-to-date list even for one country. Considering how the government is responding to the virus here, I'm a bit worried the UK newspapers will have to do multiple-page spreads soon enough if they want to do the same.<p>To preempt the cynics, yes, ultimately, this gesture won't change anything. No politician will look at it and say "Wow, we really should change our ways!" and suddenly find the cure. But it's good to see the media stand behind the people and give the time of day to those who are lost forever. It's a hopeful message, if anything.
In 2003 I asked the NYT to list casualties of the Afghan and Iraq invasions on the front page but they told me they were satisfied to bury them in the middle of the newspaper. It was only ever a few names at a time, and Even that not every day.<p>Eventually they just stopped printing them at all.
Reminder that the US is undercounting, so 100,000 had died a while ago without anyone noticing that milestone:<p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/04/27/covid-19-death-toll-undercounted/" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/04/27/cov...</a>
It makes me wonder. What if the U.S government had information about a terror attack that will happen in few months and thousands coud die from it, how will they act?<p>Probably in a lot more serious way than how they act towards this virus.<p>The world will become a safer place if we spend more on science and less on buying weapons
Also the NYT: The Imperial College study forecast up to 2.2 million US deaths. (But that seems pretty unlikely at this point.)<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/world/europe/coronavirus-imperial-college-johnson.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/world/europe/coronavirus-...</a>