Taylor Lake March 26, 2020

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Crescent Lake to Coffee Pot Bay March 26, 2020

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Brooker Creek March 25, 2020

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expendable

Given the choice of saving millions of lives

Or conducting business as usual

Bottom line calculations drive capitalists

To say the cure can't be worse than the disease.

As we practice distancing and shelter in place 

Trump fumes and his desperate sycophants sing chorus 

Like it's our patriotic duty to be exposed to the pathogen

Volunteering to be culled from the population. 

When I was a young man subject to the military draft 

It was the old men who ordered us to fight and die

Unlike in this pandemic that is putting everyone at risk

Trump would send the elderly in particular to die.

The brutality of capitalism stands in stark contrast 

To the way that China contained the virus

Mobilizing with a single-minded purpose to save lives 

Doing whatever was necessary to get it under control. 

Here what matters most is the stock market 

When shutting down the virus means shutting down commerce

Then push comes to shove and our lives are expendable 

Sacrificed to try to save the wealth of a few rich people. 

Just think what happens if all the old and disabled get snuffed out 

How much less money Social Security and Medicare will pay out

Like this will be a kind of final solution population cleansing 

As the overwhelmed hospitals are forced to triage those left to die.

But all those needless deaths won't save this system

As the financial house of cards collapses around them 

Unable to prop up their confidence game against the panic

Creating the conditions demanding a cure for capitalism