Reprinted by request: What?! What a terrible tragedy for you. The only partial consolation I could see if I lost my own family members might be if they were very, very old and had lived full lives already. What a travesty in that it mostly could have have been avoided but for the politicians. I know what you mean about "this new world". As a guy who is nearly 65, it is almost a world devoid of human contact -- especially here, where the mores are British and people already had a social distance of 2 metres and now exaggerate it beyond all necessity given this country's relatively pristine record under Covid-19. Now people walking towards me on the sidewalk tend to give me a wide berth, young mothers wheeling push-chairs who spot me from 30 metres away and cross the road as soon as they can. Unclean! Unclean!
We are all unclean, one of the dirtiest and most disease ridden animals on the planet, even before Covid-19. Perhaps we are now, only just beginning, to act as we should.