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The Ballad of a Crisis Denier
This is the tale of a woman--
One who thought she knew best.
Social media allowed her
To get a few things off her chest.
COVID-19, she claimed,
Was merely a media hoax
Created by "radical people"
To hoodwink all of us folks.
She called it "socialistic."
Moreover, she said it had
The trappings of an effort
To make her dear leader look bad.
We DON'T need hand sanitizer
Or rolls of TP by the tons.
What we need, she insisted,
Are "faith" and "fight" and "guns."
At the time she expressed her feelings,
What was unforeseen,
Was that a couple weeks later,
She'd die from COVID-19.
Had she but listened to experts
Instead of to nitwits and fools,
Maybe she'd be here today.
She should have been following rules.
Not to disparage her faith,
But somehow it didn't prevent
The woman from catching the virus
To such a deadly extent.
Would SHE have abandoned her faith
And her weapons? Probably neither.
But one thing we know for certain:
Her guns didn't help her, either.
The lesson we learn from her story
Is one that is NOT hard to miss:
Fools are not to be trusted,
For ignorance isn't bliss.
-by Bob B (4-7-20)
One who thought she knew best.
Social media allowed her
To get a few things off her chest.
COVID-19, she claimed,
Was merely a media hoax
Created by "radical people"
To hoodwink all of us folks.
She called it "socialistic."
Moreover, she said it had
The trappings of an effort
To make her dear leader look bad.
We DON'T need hand sanitizer
Or rolls of TP by the tons.
What we need, she insisted,
Are "faith" and "fight" and "guns."
At the time she expressed her feelings,
What was unforeseen,
Was that a couple weeks later,
She'd die from COVID-19.
Had she but listened to experts
Instead of to nitwits and fools,
Maybe she'd be here today.
She should have been following rules.
Not to disparage her faith,
But somehow it didn't prevent
The woman from catching the virus
To such a deadly extent.
Would SHE have abandoned her faith
And her weapons? Probably neither.
But one thing we know for certain:
Her guns didn't help her, either.
The lesson we learn from her story
Is one that is NOT hard to miss:
Fools are not to be trusted,
For ignorance isn't bliss.
-by Bob B (4-7-20)
