Sending thoughts and prayers is just fine and maybe they do some good, maybe they don’t. To me sending prayers is like give a couple of bucks to a wino on the street, maybe it helps, maybe it won’t, most folks with dire issues aren’t just a prayer or a few bucks from turning it all around, I’m sincere about the prayers and I don’t care what the wino does with the money, they are both mine to give freely. Remember the quote, “There but for the grace of God go I”
Really. A few bucks are a few bucks but thoughts and prayers are free. Why begrudge them to anyone?