The flags surrounding the Washington Monument represent the 50 American states. The 700,000 deaths from COVID-19 represent all 50 states as well. (NOTE: Different sites have different totals for deaths, ranging from 680,000 to 688,000 to 706,000.)
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This art exhibition blankets the National Mall with more than 670,000 white flags, showing the magnitude of our loss as a nation while honoring each person who has died from COVID-19.
Everybody has seen the constantly rising number of people who have died of COVID in the US – 688,000 as of September 26 -- and I think to a certain extent people have become numb to it. But seeing it represented so graphically reminds that the victims weren’t numbers but real people with families and lives and hopes and dreams and that they’re all gone now, in so many instances unnecessarily.
The flags stretched almost as far as the eye can see in several directions, and the sheer enormity of it was overwhelming.
Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by PBase are decidedly
unsharp.
As far as the eye can see, posted earlier:
