Sad but truth

Take things seriously much?

Yeah, but only one of them matters.

and the grand majority of people who "thoughts and prayers" dont do both

The specific term 'thoughts and prayers' is over stated, but if you can't do anything, then praying for them (or thinking about them, for non religious) is about the only thing you CAN do. Prayer is a very powerful thing in Christianity, though secularists don't believe in it, and even then, at the very least, showing sympathy and empathy are not useless gestures.