{"id":23798,"date":"2020-04-03T10:44:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T17:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=23798"},"modified":"2022-04-03T04:22:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T11:22:32","slug":"covid-19-and-the-death-of-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=23798","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 And the Death of Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Marc Chagall’s The Falling Angel<\/p><\/div>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

COVID-19 And the Death of Common Sense<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Yes
Apparently part of the plan is
That I
A Black Man in America, am going to put a mask around my face
A bandana
Leave my house
And then go outside.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Where there are policemen with guns.

Who do so well with Black men without masks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

With the ascent of fear
Comes the death of common sense.

Why do we wait for liars to tell us the truth
And doubt our own insight and experience?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

And then he started to scream.

It was a low guttural growl at first
Changing gradually to a sound one might expect to hear
If the doorway to Hell were left ajar
And like an idiotic lovecraftian eavesdroper
You to put your ear to the crack to hear sounds
That would leave scars.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

And after hearing what could not be unheard
You will ask yourself for the rest of your troubled life
What was worse:
The screaming
Or what was being done to cause it?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I mean, you would ask this
If you could stop screaming!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Safety gear is just for your psychology
Just like headgear in full contact sparing
Or like football gear that DOESN\u2019T prevent chronic traumatic encephalopathy
In lifelong players<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Transmission of a virus occurs through contact
It doesn\u2019t matter how much safety gear you have
If you are in constant contact with a virus<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Said the doctors in Italy

Isn\u2019t that written somewhere in children\u2019s school books?

Presentes mis doctores que luchan en la vanguardia de esta batalla<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The common cold is a virus
And there is no cure or vaccine against it
Because of how a virus changes vectors<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

How, then, will there be a vaccine for COVID-19?

People take flu shots every year
And every year people still get the flu
A flu that is always from somewhere else
And never from \u201chere\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I\u2019m not a doctor
Or in medical school
And I don\u2019t play one on T.V.
But I know that.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Tactically, they know people can\u2019t deal with the truth
They are bringing the population along
Spoon feeding us lies incrementally
Inch by inchTo prevent a wide spread panic<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

And suddenly there are daily Presidential press conferences
But still no uniform national strategy<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

COVID-19, Kidney Stone, Chemo
The new rock, paper, scissors
And COVID-19 beats Chemo

As healthcare professionals
And Samuel L. Jackson urge us
To stay the fuck at home.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

This is what I\u2019m lookin\u2019 at.

Good news takes care of itself
Don\u2019t tell me about 5 minute tests
(Five minutes abs didn\u2019t work either)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

As bodies gather in hallways
And are loaded on to refrigerated trucks

Good news takes care of itself.
And there is no good news.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Today they are hoarding toilet paper
What will it be tomorrow?

Maybe I do need a mask.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

May the angel of death pass over your home.
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(Image Credit: Marc Chagall<\/a>)<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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