Dying To Have Fun

MORE THAN a hundred and sixty thousand Americans are dead by the virus, , needlessly. by Christmas, the number will be close to three hundred thousand, needlessly.the United State of america is number in the world, according to most Americans. Number one in covid 19 death and disease, number one, the greatest country on Earth, we like to say, exactly where we want and deserve to be. Two hundred and fifty thousand american gather together at close quarters, without masks, to ride motorcycles together. A sixty three year old woman, a friend of mine, with lupus and diabetes, refuses to wear a mask, damned if the governmentt is going to tell her what to do, and goes flitting off to a casino, to have fun. Fun, after all, trumps public health. Me, having fun, now, and may the devil take the hindmost. In america, we deserve what we get. We deserve a pathological prevaricating gangster president, because we were stupid enough to elect him. We deserve an epidemic, because when it became obvious that an epidemic was imminent, we did little or nothing,our political leaders were inert, and we the american people decided that making the necessary personal sacrifices to stop the spread of disease was just too much to endure, too much an infringement on our freedom and sacred right to have fun, and anyway, nobody is going to tell us what to do, we are so very great. The public schools are open, and already the disease is spreading through them, because we lack the sense and humility to keep our children at home, to learn online. Football practice, without social distancing, is in full swing, tackle football, and the virus is spreading.Voices of sanity are ignored or shouted down as we the American people insist on living our normal, fun filled, self absorbed lives.A seventeen year old student in Georgia, whose school had twelve positive tests in the first week, said she thought most of the kids would be wearing masks and social distancing. She must have forgotten that she lives in the United States of Amnesia, the United States of Arrogance, where we all have our fun, and are number one, in everything that really matters.