Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Coffee Pot Bay to Crescent Lake March 31, 2021

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

do the math

China has fewer than five thousand deaths 

Compared to more than five hundred thousand here

And if you consider relative population size

It's more than five hundred times worse here 


Or to put the point the other way around 

If the virus had been contained here

Like how it was controlled in China 

There would be just barely one thousand dead


But this comparison is not mentioned in the news 

You have to search out the numbers for China 

And do the math calculation on your own to verify 

The system here has killed half a million people 


And even if you believe the propaganda 

That says the Chinese don't report true numbers 

That's just nibbling at the edges of the difference 

What amounts to truly massive murder 


Instead the press and the politicians attack China 

All of them in agreement pushing the next Cold War

Even as the fourth wave of the pandemic looms here

Gathering momentum to kill so many thousands more


Everyone knows what happens next 

Even if you needed it demonstrated before 

Repeating the same mistake again and again 

Dropping all precautions results in a death surge


This is the insanity of capitalism driven to profit

Under a government that puts business first

But the Chinese example in the current situation 

Tells us it doesn't have to be this way



Fort DeSoto March 30, 2021

Monday, March 29, 2021

John Chesnut to Possum Branch March 29, 2021