Damned long “unprecedented”

The WHO (not the band) started using it – unprecedented – early in 2020.

Then it’s been a string of “to mask or not to mask, that is the question”…

Then “Happy Birthday” (X2) to wash one’s hands long enough to scrub out the exposed virus…

Unprecedented…The whole world now understand care workers and essential workers…how they prep for their work (of operating a patient – however urgent).

Many of them died during the process…unprecedented.

Then the firefighters…underpaid, overworked…up in Portland and out West.

Unprecedented.

This week, instead of “We all live in a Yellow Submarine”, we all Iive under the heat dome.

Unprecedented.

You would think people charge out of the gate like Spanish bulls, right after the virus get under control.

No, no, no. Unprecedented, due to the variant (and perhaps boosters).

Plus the force of habits (staying in, and staying socially distant).

We end up on facebook and post our grievances and grief.

Delayed and prolonged grief. Unending five stages…(albeit some people still get stuck in stage two: denial).

America gets split in two, not Red States and Blue States, but vaccinated and unvaccinated.

Precedented and Unprecedented.

People even took a seasonal flu shot at the nudging of a Walgreen near them. But not this.

Science under attack. Since when it hasn’t been!

The Church (Catholic) beheaded early-day scientists, astronomers in particular.

Then the greed and ambition to “subdue the Earth…dominion over the seas” led to pooling resources for an expedition. Many shipwrecks behind, Columbus ended up (unprecedentedly) in the Americas.

I’d rather the tale of Papillon with his unprecedented escape from the French colonial prisons (plural…that guy, married both sisters…since a butterfly needs to have two flapping wings).

That’s how we have lived….precedentedly…until recently.

Until this past year, when Trump and Floyd, Covid and Climate Change all converged to make a oh-well unprecedented year. Plus the Olympics without spectators (not short of protestors though).

Japanese normally stay quiet. But this time, unprecedentedly, they come out, holding Hell-No signs.

I have stayed home more than any other year in my entire short bi-pedalist years.

God gave me two feet. To pedal, to walk and run, to push the pedal to the medal… But I stay put.

I wash my hands, stay away from people, and find myself with new habits: anti-social.

They should start investing in Baby World….for after this past year, birth rates should shoot up.

To replenish the Earth…then to subdue it…

The instructions have been more than clear: in a normal year, go out and conquer the World, …keep your Oath (of lording over everything, woman and child, especially) and be Proud…move in formation, and charge….

Floridian man got charged and sent to jail (unprecedented). Now the rest of the bunch, 500+ recognizable faces shared on social media during the Insurrection, get plea bargains and sentences….”I will walk with you to take back”…”I will be with you in the end days”….All those promises, not kept. After all, most politicians I despised found themselves ducked in hiding – draft deferred – due to one reason or another during Vietnam, a war, per early estimate (Simulmatics) could be won in six months..just like the Bay of Pigs, just like Afghanistan…

Unprecedented prediction…”it will go away when it’s warm”…oh well, the Dome is here and damn Delta are rampant.

Keep bleaching and preaching!