"Thoughts and Prayers."

What does this ultimately mean, do, or allude to?

Sadly, I wrote this initially after the Orlando nightclub shootings.

After San Bernardino, there was a bit of a backlash on the whole ‘thoughts and prayers’ culture. That’s only logical. I think the Orlando numbers and context are terrible, but … Sandy Hook is probably the worst thing to happen in America in the last five years (in some respects) and bas…