CURE-ious

From Dorothy Dawe:

When it comes to the coronavirus global pandemic, we have no leadership at the Federal level.  Trump is just too incompetent and greedy.  He’s tried to put on a show during recent press briefings so that he can play "president -- although he sounds more like a doofus as he stumble over big words like “asymptomatic."  Trump as "president" is all a sham.
 
As a result, state governors have had to take up the mantle of leadership. However, that comes with issues as they have to work against each other to obtain much  needed testing kits and the necessary PPE for their own state’s doctors and nurses.  There is no federal oversight.  No one at the top is coordinating anything.
 
And now that Trump has realized that some of his hotels and golf courses have closed up shop (due to various governors’ orders), he’s tweeting out a new tune:  “the cure” can’t be worse than the problem itself.
 
Now he’s desperate to “reopen” America.  He and his Klan even have people clamoring that we should just let the coronavirus do its job – which would mean wiping out hundreds of thousands if not a million or more of our fellow citizens.
 
He’s even started screaming at us with all cap tweets:

Today he said he wanted America to reopen on Easter:
 
Why Easter?
 
“Easter is a very special day for me ... Easter Sunday,” said the man who cannot recite one verse from the Bible (although he is very familiar with two Corinthians), “and you'll have packed churches all over our country." 

That line prompted the spread of a very apt and amusing hashtag on Twitter:  #BloodySunday.

Trump's all-cap rant called to mind Emmett Lee Dickinson's poem "He screams -- it's not good he is screaming" (below on the left).  Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "We dream -- it is good we are dreaming" (below on the right).

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
 
He screams – it’s not good he
     is screaming –
It will hurt us – we are afraid –
And now he’s planning to – kill us,
And as he’s planning – shriek –

What harm? Men die – conveniently –
It is a truth – of Blood –
But we – are dying his Trauma –
His Trauma – is what we dread –

Cautious – We jar each other –
And keep watch – with open eyes –
Lest his Fascism – end in Mistake–
And in morbid Demise

Cast us to Shafts of Granite –
With just our Age – and Name –
And perhaps a phrase of Remembrance –
Connected to – his scream –

By Emily Dickinson:
 
We dream – it is good we
     are dreaming –
It would hurt us – were we awake –
But since it is playing – kill us,
And we are playing – shriek –

What harm? Men die – externally –
It is a truth – of Blood –
But we – are dying in Drama –
And Drama – is never dead –

Cautious – We jar each other –
And either – open the eyes –
Lest the Phantasm – prove the Mistake–
And the livid Surprise

Cool us to Shafts of Granite –
With just an Age – and Name –
And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian –
It's prudenter – to dream –

But what of protecting our population?

Today on the Senate floor, as Mitch McConnell pushed for a billion dollar slush fund for Wall Street and corporate America, he spoke passionately about our elderly citizens, the ill and the immunocompromised. 

"If they are going to die," said McConnell, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."