You cannot hug your friends. You can go shopping.
Can’t visit family, but work is fine.
It seems as though it been decided: Stopping
The spread’s less vital than the bottom line.
We can appreciate the NHS
By clapping every Thursday. But we can’t
Provide the PPE they need. Much less
Pay them a living wage. They simply aren’t
Important. Not like the economy!
A second spike’s a smallish price to pay.
(We mustn’t call it it herd immunity,
But that is what we’re doing, anyway.)
Though some of you, of course, will end up dead,
That’s still better than being in the red.
Tom Juniper Poetry 