Knee deep in the first wave
New records for the number of cases
Rising ever faster spreading uncontrolled
On its way to being up to our necks.
When the response to the crisis is denial
For sure it's going to get much worse
Even if the information is kept from us
What we don't know will hurt us.
The government suppression of facts escalates
From blaming increased testing for the increasing spread
To stopping the CDC from getting the hospitalization data
And attacking the messenger Fauci for speaking truth.
If the shutdown had been done right
Kept in place until the incidence subsided
Continued until widespread testing and tracing existed
This would not be happening of course.
Instead we get the push to crowd the children together
Back into their classrooms with their teachers
Compounding the disastrous premature business re-opening
Dismissing the obvious impossibility to do it safely.
But the stock market keeps going up increasing the holdings
Of people who have much more money than they need
Which is the point of the capitalist administration after all
Sacrificing expendable people to preserve profits.
In countries where science determines policy
And human lives are valued over protecting private wealth
Where healthcare is one of many universal rights
The contrast cries out against the criminals in control here.
This dysfunctional government literally threatens our lives
Forcing into consciousness the need for complete system change
Driving ever more people to protest in mass demonstrations
Opening the way to overturn the ruling class and transform society.
