There Are Way Too Many People Dying
There are way too many people dying
Yet we, the living, complain
Because we’re still here
With masks and keeping six feet or
Two meters apart
Staying not in a factory or prison
But at home
From where we live and work
Unless you have to go away to work,
And we thank you
And (everyone) get by hopefully without catching
Anything,
Such as the nineteenth COVID virus
We have to get outside,
And so we protest in Berlin
And politicians in Ohio
And D.C.
Hawk a malarial that not only
Doesn’t work but harms in other ways
If Madame Cleo came back
And recommended something,
I’d be more inclined to listen
This should be the year of doing nothing
I’ve said it elsewhere
I’m saying it again
This should be the year of doing nothing
But getting better
Next year we could try it
Without the disease
C L Couch
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clcouch123 
August 2, 2020 at 7:56 pm
Right. We don’t have that luxury. This virus isn’t going to be gone next year, either. Learn to live with it. And don’t believe everything you read, either. I have personal experience it’s not all true.
August 5, 2020 at 12:39 am
Thank you. I agree, the virus isn’t going to go away. We’ll learn something about treatment. And, as you say and I hope, we’ll learn to live with it. And you’re right to be skeptical about other people’s messages.
August 2, 2020 at 9:03 pm
So many differing viewpoints on this, Christopher. A cause of frustration for all. I have to say I am rather ambivalent about the whole thing. Doesn’t worry me at all. Though I do take your point of just chill and relax and let time do its work. But younger people seem to be in such a hurry. Not sure why. But that’s the way of youth.
August 5, 2020 at 12:46 am
It is the way of youth to be in a hurry. I was in a hurry. I wish we could agree that disease is bad and this disease is bad–and that running the risk of overdoing safety is far better of a severity than under-doing safety, which is what we’re suffering from. You’re right, there are many viewpoints. Which should be okay. But I think we could more commonly agree about the current crisis. We could agree there is one. Maybe not.
Len, I hope you’re having a good week. I think of you outside playing chess.
August 3, 2020 at 12:05 pm
This is very real and relatable
August 5, 2020 at 12:48 am
Thank you! I sat down and wrote about what is happening and hoped for the best–about what I was writing and about what is happening.
August 8, 2020 at 9:59 am
oh goodness!!!!! brother your words are alive and kicking and i hope a lot of people will hear your message and actually listen to it.
August 11, 2020 at 1:37 am
Thank you, sister! I respond to the current crisis with a mixture of fear and frustration–which I guess many feel–especially when we act as if the sickness is over, when it is nowhere near done.
August 11, 2020 at 2:10 pm
That is so true. I think it’s a roller coaster of feeling, right? Either way, we push through.
August 11, 2020 at 8:03 pm
Yes, ups and downs. And we keep going.