Giving Up

 AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS, local, state, and federal, are issuing guidelines for how people should conduct Thanksgiving gatherings. A few recommendations include keeping the gatherings to ten or fewer people, having the gathering outside, presumably weather permitting, seating people at least six feet apart, enhancing ventilation, avoiding hugging, kissing, or unplanned sexual intercourse,  washing hands early and often, wearing masks when not stuffing turkey and dressing down one's pie hole, taking after dinner naps on different beds, belching only into one's face masks, and assorted standard oft repeated advice, some idiotic, most merely common sensical. Nobody but nobody seems to be simply recommending that all Thanksgiving gatherings of more than one person be avoided altogether. Governments, like we the American people, seems to have given up entirely. Government, lie we the American people, seems to have decided that making the necessary sacrifices to control and contain our Covid 19 epidemic are not reasonable, feasible, desirable, possible, or what the hell ever. We simply aren't willing to do what it takes to stop the epidemic, the spread of death and disease, so why keep pretending that we are? The Trump policy of denial of reality, it would seem, has finally prevailed across America's fruited plain, his final legacy of a corrupt and chaotic presidency, and his benighted followers have prevailed in their lunacy of prosperity at all costs, including hundreds of thousands of dead Americans. We as a society seemingly have decided that we are unwilling to change our personal lives one iota to save other lives, so why try, and damn the consequences! In New York City restaurants and bars must close by ten P.M.. Like, big frigging deal. What good, exactly, will that do? What purpose is served, other than to assuage guilt by pretending to take action? People have plenty of time to eat, drink, and spread disease before ten o'clock at night, right? The show must go on, the football games must be played, even as the daily infection rate nationally approaches two hundred thousand, and the total national death toll surpasses a quarter million, on its merry way to half a million. Freaky Trump loving  far right types concoct half baked conspiracy scenarios about Covid 19 being a hoax, no problem at all, just like their insane master, the defeated Donald Trump. Trump, his malignant supporters, the epidemic, and economic collapse go hand in hand. For the sake of societal sanity and survival, may they all go hand in hand into the landfill of history, and bury themselves deep beneath their self manufactured heaping mound of garbage, like festering maggots squirming atop a huge pile of dung.