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Why We Will Overcome Covid19

I Siblings, we will overcome, COVID-19 And most anything by growing as human (Jennifer Proxenos's POTD inspired my writing) Again about this pandemic in perspective II Remember the American Indians? Yes Hernan Cortez and Francisco Pizzaro killed many But many more were killed by Cortez' germs The flu, the STDs, and especially smallpox III O the Americas were depleted of teeming Aztecs, The Maya also pyramid builders (Mexico & Guatemala), And the wonderfully organized Inca, in Peru Despite topography with cliffs & highlands IV They have not all gone, or been killed Without livestock and chicken, the pox Was like God's vengeance, angst like never before But "tribes" survived, and became a PEOPLE now V We shall survive. The Indians had De Las Casas, A conquistador, a conqueror become Priest (Catholico) Who lobbied the Crown to stop the carnage: BLACK LEGEND? Yes, to force diseased folk to work the mines VI In 1588, good Queen Bess, bested Philip II And all the gold and silver stolen from Indians Did not stop the "Protestant Storms" on The ARMADA 1588, and twice more: 1596 & 1597. God uses Queens! (c)Deo. Shalom, shalom &Hallelujah. God is Good, We're a work in progress.

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