@3TomatoesShort @DenisCOVIDinfoguy

Such acknowledgement would entail mourning the promise of not being complicit in spread of death and disability. Mourning the promise of do no harm.

Moreover, it would require admitting that one has been foolish, even before being negligent or worse, and that indictment, of being the fool, is, all on its own, a profound threat to ego-value.

Now multiply that failure to mourn, that rejection of one's own foolishness, across an entire population of aglithacultural sickworkers (so called "health-care workers"), whose entire identities, entire autohagiographies, are bound up in systems of cultivating affliction so to harvest rent-bounty from same.

The Grief Taboo happens at a societal level. It organizes what may and may not be clear. It defends against collective mourning, whole-hearted mourning, because mourning is a place of power.

Power that is a threat to retrofuture promises, autohagiographic ego-value commitments, that one is doing no harm.