We’ve pretty much seen Meredith and the gang do it all.

That’s why I think the showrunners have no problem spotlighting the injustices that grapple with our country today.

Do you think 12 episodes of COVID are emotionally powerful?

Try adding police brutality and racially motivated violence to the storyline and see how you feel.

To march or not to march.

That is the question.

Richard senses that something important is happening, and he doesn’t want to miss it.

He leaves the hospital in Bailey’s capable hands and heads to the streets.

Avery spies the protestors on his way in but figures the hospital needs him more.

Cormac refuses to let his sons go back into the crowd.

Things are too rowdy.

That’s an understatement.

Richard angrily shares that Nell was marching peacefully.

Things were actually organized and beautiful before it turned into a frightening mess.

Avery has never been to a protest.

He was always working, studying, or writing checks instead of being in the crowd.

During Nell’s recovery, Avery, Webber, and even Cormac gather around to celebrate a successful surgery.

Richard promises Nell she can get back out there soon.

Then they start to compare battle scars.

Literal battle scars from protests.

The three men stand a little straighter when she recalls how the air “felt like possibility.”

Cormac decides to let his boys continue to protest if they want.

And Avery fights with his mother, demanding to know why they don’t have any scars.

The moral of the story?

Do not underestimate Catherine.

She always has a plan.

Maggie also has a plan, and unfortunately, Winston is royally screwing up her timetable.

She doesn’t care that he’s found them a house.

She wants him to stay put until the world calms down.

Maggie begs him to keep her on the line.

Winston does everything right.

License and registration in his hands, both hands on the wheel.

One officer walks a drug dog around the car, as the other questions Winston.

He’s not happy that Maggie is on the phone and asks Winston to hang up.

Winston wonders why he has to hang up, and the officer immediately accuses him of failing to comply.

Winston carefully and slowly takes one hand off the wheel to sever his connection with Maggie.

She has every right to freak out.

She grabs Ortiz and demands the resident call Winston until Maggie returns.

The kid goes into v-fib, and Maggie is needed again.

Richard takes her phone and promises to keep calling.

And if he doesn’t hear from Winston, he will go looking for him.

Thankfully, once Maggie is out of surgery, Winston has been reached.

Maggie launches into a completely logical “you’re alive” montage, followed by a dozen questions.

Then they left it all on the side of the road.

Winston mumbles that he’s okay between every sentence.

Winston is not okay.

She confidently declares that he is okay.

And she is right there with him.

If this isn’t emotionally exhausting enough, we still have COVID woes.

And my ever-present aggravation that Meredith is still not awake.

I’m going to start calling this showBailey’s Anatomyand be done with it.

Bailey has a patient who 100 percent thinks COVID is a scam.

Bailey sarcastically complains to Teddy.

What did COVID give them?

A nervous breakdown and a dead mother.

Bailey pleads to let her treat him.

He may think it’s a scam, but what if he’s wrong?

It turns out he is wrong.

Doctors find him outside the hospital, not breathing after he walked out of his room against recommendations.

Just when you think you’re over the hill, something else knocks you back down.

Bailey needs a hug.

The fact that they are sharing the space with another patient and a new guy is annoying.

The fact that the patient’s stomach bursts open and his guts fall out is really annoying.

The new guy is useless.

Schmidt channels his inner Grey.

He listens to his mentor’s words in his head, quick to put the man back together again.

Schmidt is hopeful he will be a good doctor one day.

Avery is hopeful that he can make a difference.

Maggie and Winston are hopeful they will always be okay if they have each other.

Bailey is hopeful the world will once again be normal.

Cormac is hopeful for the future.

They are all taking steps to build a world worth living in.

Let’s never stop believing that world can exist.