Australia's Choice
Fcuk's sake! Why not eradicate the bug,
then join with all those countries doing the same?
Those states awash must 'fess a different game;
from old and poor the bug will pull the rug.
Latinos, Black Americans, white poor
all disproportionately die in droves.
Cheap coffins fill trenches. No cedar groves
grieve in the wind where headstones endure.
The world death rate* is way past six percent;
and double that and more the old UK,
who once poured scorn on Italy's torment:
now Raab smirks, clutching hard the worm bouquet.
'Restart economies', they shrug, who fail,
whose measures come to zip but death in 'jail'.
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Death rate per case, being total deaths divided by total cases, times a hundred to turn the fraction into percent. As reported, though the figures are not all trustworthy. Furthermore, death rates invariably rise.
As I write world death rate 6.8%
Australia 1.1%
USA 5.3%
Italy 13.2%
UK 13.5%
In some cases it almost seems as if neither lockdown nor healthcare systems have had any beneficial effect so far - and Infections in old folks homes have been rife in many countries.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52311877 - an illustration of how poor and minority 'essential' food workers and of course their families in a Republican State in the USA are 'fed to the virus'.
Trumpery
Trump's fart-mouth sphincter purses then blows off;
campaign for re-election's all his sway.
He tweets for insurrection from his trough:
'They like me! That's the issue of the day.
Forget the virus. It won't go away.
Second Amendment is the theme that counts.
We'll fight for sad, fat, stubbly whites who say
guns are essential, in unlimited amounts.
They've had it tough in old Virginia.
The governor is un-American;
and so his lock-downs... are peculiar.
The cure is worse than shit that hits the fan.
Let virus rip; my enemies to choke.
I'll reign for these Trump-true-red-buttock folk.'
