Hello. You may have heard quite a bit about me in the news but I’d like to take this opportunity to speak to you directly. It’s been a difficult time, I know. Some mistakes have been made. That’s why I’m asking for your support and the support of all those you know to help make things better going forward. Together I know we can do it. I know we can get back to normal, to the way things used to be.
I know a lot of people are tired of social distancing. They’re tired of not being able to see family and friends. They’re tired of not being able to gather in large groups or go to restaurants or bars. They’re tired of going to restaurants or bars and having the spaces where they can sit be extremely limited, with many areas off-limits. They’re tired of being told which way to walk down the aisles of stores, even though it’s, at worst, a minor inconvenience.
I know many people are tired of wearing masks too, and I understand. They can be irritating. Wearing masks can make it hard to eat. Some even claim masks make it hard for them to breathe.
Many people, I know, want to go back to work. Or they want to be able to go back to their offices because they’re pretty sure they left an apple in their desk, and it would be really nice to have a meeting with actual people and not have to face a screen of coworkers that looks like the opening credits of The Brady Bunch.
I know people are tired of being scared, too. This is perhaps most true for parents who are facing the new school year. They’re wondering what they’re going to do with their children. For some virtual learning simply isn’t an option. They don’t have access to the technology or the internet in their area is too spotty to be usable. And many people just want to get their damn kids out of the house.
I know parents are worried about what can happen to their children. Even if statistically the chances of children getting sick or becoming carriers of infection are low no parent wants their child to be a statistic. And we don’t really know what the numbers are for children. No parent wants their child to be a guinea pig either. And speaking of guinea pigs what about Mr. Crunkles, the class guinea pig, who’s actually a girl, which we learned when she unexpectedly gave birth two days after she was brought to school from the pet store? Young Benjamin still has nightmares from finding her still bloody with a mass of pink suckling babies underneath her, or maybe the nightmares are from the time a bunch of sixth graders caught him in the bathroom and gave him what’s known as a “swirly”.
I’m getting off the subject here.
Many people, I know, simply ignore the rules, or openly speak out against them, deliberately gathering in large groups. I know they’re tired of being called out for this behavior.
Well, I sympathize. I’m tired of it too. I say it’s time to stop the social distancing, stop wearing masks, and just stop worrying. All of us, I believe, need to come together and simply go back to doing things the way they were before. Trust me on this. It will be so much better, especially for me.
I’m COVID-19 and I approve this message.
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Great soundtrack. How do you find these things? I did a google search on the lyrics and read the background story. This song was my generation and I had no idea what it was saying. Also, I just thought I couldn’t follow the lyrics – Didn’t know they didn’t mean anything. You always educate me in one way or another Chris!
I’ve always had eclectic tastes in music and a weird memory for that sort of thing so I find a lot of unusual stuff. And I remember when I first heard Timothy Leary say that John Lennon wrote “Come Together” as a campaign song for him. I thought, yeah, Leary’s been dropping windowpane for a while, but then I found out it was true.
Covid would like nothing better than to have free reign. I always say “You don’t like wearing a mask? Well, I don’t like wearing a bra but I do it every day. You feel like breathing is hard when you’re wearing a mask? Try breathing on a ventilator when your lungs shut down from Covid. That would make Covid happy for sure.
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I heard an epidemiologist say that if everyone in the world stayed away from everybody else for three days we’d have COVID-19 beaten. I know that’s not practical but it also speaks to how little we really need to do to beat this thing. And I think it’s why most of us are observing the rules.
Aren’t you on the ballot this November, COVID-19? And tell Chris I always approve of his messages.
Trigger warning!