Shelter in Place, San Francisco, January 19, 2021

Since this pandemic began, there has been a blank space where mourning should have been. National mourning, respect for the dead, solidarity in grief. Today is the first time that we have been asked by the leader of our country to stop for a minute and think about the 400,000 lives that have been lost, and to honor their memory. This is hope. This is healing. Nothing could be more important today than to join President-elect Biden in mourning such an unfathomable loss and to dedicate ourselves, as a nation, to do better for each other going forward.