We the People

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Thoughts on contending with coronavirus

We the People
By Franklin Price
03/20/2020

We the people of this great USA
Are facing Coronavirus today
Coming together by staying away
Stops the transmission, holds infection at bay

If you must go to obtain any needs
Wash your hands often, that's where virus breeds
Cough in your elbow, keep it contained
Shaking hands with another, should now be refrained

Believe in the system, it still is the same
Must adapt to conditions, to play a smart game
This is not Armageddon, matters not what you think
This is not the Titanic, going down in the drink

The stock market's falling, investors not cool
Profit takers, not smart, and are playing the fool
To sell in abandon, drives the whole market down
You hurt the economy, and look like a clown

Money's not all, it is not everything
To trade without thinking, a depression will bring
Will hurt this great country, it may even fall
To trade on a virus, is not smart at all

This could be the black plague, if we tried to ignore
Won't be very long, we can open the door
Return to what's normal, for you and for me
Just have some patience, and soon you will see

I could go on further, but this is the gist
Think for yourself, of the things I have missed
The tunnel's not dark, there is light at the end
Be smart in your thinking and actions my friend



If you appreciate what this has to say, please get it around to everyone you know, by any means you have available to you. We, the USA, and the world, need to work together to get through this without crashing everything.

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