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6 January 2021: To
Ask to be Exempt Would be Unreasonable
“Death . . . comes for us all, my lords. Yes, even for
Kings he comes…”
-St. Thomas More in Robert Bolt’s A Man for All
Seasons
A slip of paper which I have since misplaced:
“SARS coronavirus 2 RNS
Detected”
Detected
DETECTED
Me? But I’m special (my mother always said so)
“If you have a question regarding your…”
Well, no, I guess not. Time to pause and think
To ask to be exempt would be unreasonable
But will my corpse be stored in a reefer truck?
To ask to be exempt would be unreasonable
And so
What must I do in service to God and man?
I wrote these clumsy lines
in January after my daughter recovered from the CV; she almost died of it. My
pharmacist was diagnosed at about the same time as I was, 6 January, and died
within two weeks. My wife was quite ill for a week but recovered. Some fifteen
friends and acquaintances died from it this year. One friend died in a
three-hospital shuffle, and because of the paperwork his body was not released
to his family for months.
Vaccines, as you will
remember, were available to Congress in December of 2020 but not to most
citizens until March of 2021 (AOC gets coronavirus vaccine on social media, as Congress
begins to receive Pfizer injections | Fox News), and (The Distribution Timeline for the COVID-19 Vaccine |
coronavirus (utah.gov)).
My symptoms were only something
like a prolonged bad cold, an undeserved mercy.
The CV is real.
May our new year be free from
it.
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