Gershon Wolf Poet Rhyme

Aristocracy's Hypocrisy

Your governor's spoken
  Now you've been woken
To CV-19's pernicious spread
  110,000 USA dead

Stay in your homes
  Don't congregate
To go back to work
  You'll just have to wait

Folks die all alone now
  No visiting the sick
Mosques and churches all empty
  Can't have a virus uptick

But wait, what is this --
  A massive BLM demonstration
Uh, why, of course, THAT's perfectly fine
  ~ Protesting racism trumps mitigation

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Timothy Mcguire June 10, 2020 at 10:30 PM so true Gershon Gershon Wolf June 10, 2020 at 11:18 PM Thanks for your comment, Timothy! :) gw

Kim Rodrigues June 10, 2020 at 6:52 PM It’s all crazy! Gershon Wolf June 10, 2020 at 11:18 PM Give me a 'C!' Give me an 'R!'... Smiles, Gershon

Geoffrey Brewer June 10, 2020 at 1:13 PM Have a care! There has been a widespread outbreak of uncontrolled Self righteous virtue signalling. You’ve diagnosed it , Gershon. Well written! Gershon Wolf June 10, 2020 at 3:53 PM You're on it, Geoffrey. Thanks for the support. Best wishes, Gershon

Caren Krutsinger June 10, 2020 at 11:15 AM I am sadly and seriously wondering how these congregations are going to fare later. It is a seriously sad time in our country, your concerns are also mine. Gershon Wolf June 10, 2020 at 3:53 PM IF, and that's a big if, we've been told the truth, there's going to be a ramp-up in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths from all these protests. What to do?!

Heidi Sands June 10, 2020 at 8:57 AM So true Gershon. Our 4th of July has been canceled due to Covid and now there is a large protest planned and allowed for Flag Day. They are going to take over the park and distance from there. This is usually where Veterans celebrate Flag day and have a parade. Well done :) Gershon Wolf June 10, 2020 at 10:23 AM Thanks, Heidi... How many others, besides you, have noticed? The hypocrisy is just incredibly obvious to me, to you... Why not to everyone?! Perhaps love of their 'ideology,' their virtue signaling, blinds them. For shame... Hope you're feeling better and better. Thanks, again. :) gw

Michelle Faulkner June 9, 2020 at 11:07 PM I did think about that while watching the protests - and now there seems to be a spike in new cases and deaths - everything just goes in circles I guess. Gershon Wolf June 9, 2020 at 11:22 PM Ha, ha! Talk about 'going in circles:' That describes the reasoning of such 'brainiacs' as Pritzker (IL), Cuomo (NY), Murphy (NJ), and the rest of the govs who locked things down --- until they bowed of the feet of the protestors who they think will vote for them... Hypocrisy of the highest order! Thanks, Gershon