What originally started out as a half-joke, half-soliloquy on Facebook back in February 29th, 2020 has now aged into something quite prophetically sad.
Below is copy & pasted from the original Facebook thread of haikus I created. Friends and family added their own, which I am not including here.
We never get funding
Coronavirus outbreak
We get blamed again
"We're all gonna die!"
Is where we are at right now
Plus stocks went down, too
Everyone panics
At the wrong fucking bullshit
Like stupid stock shares
Someone now in charge
Who thinks science is made up
Will control health comms
At what point will we
Consider human lives as
More than stock markets
Health is not money
Yet the media only cares
When money is attached
Twenty percent cut
From CDC outbreak team
Because walls, not lives
"Dow Jones dropped a lot!"
Do you think I fucking care
When people have died
It is now the point
Where my job is annoying
Dealing with fake news
Outbreak fake news from
Racist hypochondriacs
Annoys yours truly
"Asians are dirty!"
Screams the racist on the train
Looking at yours truly
So in response to
This ignorant gross asshole
I cough right on him
I worry about
The elderly and the poor
Who lack protection
How are the people
Who are old and so lonely
Faring right now?
How will the people
Who have no money or home
Find treatment, at all?
To all public health
Responders and providers
Thank you very much
So please be kind to
Those trying to help the sick
Without funds at all
Human lives must be
More than politicizing
Ego over truth
I care more about
The vulnerable and poor
In this giant mess
So save your stock share
Woes for someone else who cares
Because I will not
In epidemics
Please be kind to those who work
To protect your health