(At the time of writing the total number of officially recorded Covid-19 cases is just over one million.)
Over one million sick (official count)
And fifty thousand dead. And so we sit
At home and watch as the new cases mount.
There isn’t much we can do to make it
Less terrible. Less frightening. Less shit.
We watch the government leaving it later
And later to provide NHS kit
Today, they sent them thirty ventilators!
One million. Thirty. That’s the difference here.
I never was much good at mathematics
But even I can see enough to fear:
Our government’s crisis response is… static.
We cannot help, although we see the need.
Those who could help will not, out of sheer greed.
Tom Juniper Poetry 