Thank you.

Mm hmm.

500,071 dead.

That's more Americans who have died in one year in this pandemic than a world war one World War Two in the Vietnam War combined, the people we lost were extraordinary.

They spanned generations born in America, immigrated to America.

But just like that, so many of them took their final breath alone in America.

Yeah.

As a nation, we can't accept such a cruel fate.

While we're fighting this pandemic for so long, we have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow.

We have to resist viewing each life as a Stasi as a statistic or a blur.

Or on the news.

It's not Democrats.

Republicans were dying from the virus.

It's our fellow Americans.

It's our neighbors, our friends, our mothers, our fathers, our sons, our daughters, husbands, wives.

We have to fight this together as one people.

As the United States America, this nation will smile again.

This nation will know sunny days again.

This nation will no joy again.

And as we do well, remember each person we've lost, Elijah.

They lived the loved ones they left behind.

We will get through this, I promise you.