COVID-19: The Early Days (3/30/20)

This unseen enemy snuck
Onto our shores, such bad luck!
“Predict it? no way!”
declared Donald J
He’s our prez so I guess we’re all fu%$^d
 
With each day, and each new set of lies
His poll numbers oh they do rise
He gets nonstop press
Biden getting much less
Fades away before our eyes
 
With rallies a thing of the past
He wondered how long he could last
Then his briefings did feed
Ego-maniacal need
He glommed on to them so very fast
 
“We have this thing under control.
No worse than the flu or a cold
It will just disappear
Like a miracle here
‘cause we have taken steps that were bold.”
 
“From China we slammed closed the door
Such foresight you ain’t seen before
I’m as smart as can be
Coulda been an MD
On this virus I’m declaring war.”
 
Refusing the test kits from WHO
The CDC knows what to do
“We’re the best on the planet
Though we didn’t plan it
We’ve got this, it’s just like the flu.”
 
He told us that a new vaccine
Would very soon be on the scene
Pretty soon…zero cases
And only just traces
Of the nightmare that just might have been
 
“We’re ordering lots of supplies
How much I can only surmise
Ventilators you’ll see
And enough PPEs
Oh I am so great and so wise.”
 
“All who need it can now get the test
And you know we are doing our best
And also of course
Our COVID Task Force
Is much better than all of the rest.”
 
“And wait, oh yes wait there’s much more
Look what Google has for us in store
A nifty website
Online overnight
Oh we are primed to win this war.”
 
Did his response take far too much time?
“No, the blame is surely not mine.”
He said with a smile
When for such a long while
He just didn’t get off the dime
 
“This thing is a hoax.” so he cried
“All who said different lied.
Perpetrated by those
whom everyone knows,
when I became president – cried”
 
“I tell you again this will pass
Sooner than later I guess
my hunch is in defiance
Of data and science
But know I was first in my class.”
 
Then along came Andrew Cuomo
With data and facts and … you know
That tough guy demeanor
He used to be meaner
Now he’s a sweet talking Romeo (sorry Bruce)
 
The governors were on it already
With leadership so strong and steady
They know what they need
Just wish Trump would heed
Their requests for him to be ready…
 
…With a national plan, not a tweet
So the states won’t need to compete
“Match supplies with the need.”
“Do you job.” they did plead
“We’re your backup,” he then did repeat
 
While the feds moved along in slo-mo
Newsom, Inslee and Cuomo
Prepared for the worst
Doing first things first
They wait on the Pres’dent no-mo
 
The models were telling the tale
What states would need to prevail
But Trump disagreed
said he knows what they need
He’s smart and he will never fail
 
As a looming disaster here lurks
The task force with Fauci and Birx
Told trump to beware
So emergency he declared
While behind stood a lineup of jerks
 
Telling businesses they all must close
And people must avoid getting close
We’ll flatten the curve
You know it will serve
Our best interest and end our woes
 
But the economy started to cave
His stock market he could not save
Unemployment ballooned
He thought he was doomed
Oh how he did rant and rave
 
“This really is all China’s fault
I feel we are under assault
Through no fault of my own
My great numbers are blown
To this sh^&*t we must call a halt”
 
“It would be a beautiful thing,
If by Easter we began mingling.
Fill up the pews,
Oh, I simply refuse
not to have a perfect Spring.”
 
“The US will not be held down.
We’re already turning this ‘round.
Let’s get back to work
Or I’ll go berserk
I will simply become unwound.”
 
But Fauci, how he did persist
All the lies how he did resist
If we open too soon
We will all be doomed
Openings we will have missed
 
Trump doubled down as before
Quarantine of NY he called for
Oh, wait, never mind
Now I’m inclined
To let the states wager this war
 
“They need to show appreciation
For all of my accommodations.”
“Suck up to me,
if you want PPE.
We must have a friendly relation.”
 
“Just take your cue from my Pence.
Point out how my skills are immense.
Amplify my lies.
Speak with loving eyes
Say no one ever made so much sense.”
 
“Ignore what I said in the past”
My poll ratings just need to last
So I win one more term,
today, I stand firm,
We now need the guidelines to last.”
 
“I now have $2 trillion to spend.
To my buddies I do plan to lend,
With no strings attached,
Oh, the plan we have hatched
Oversight?  That’s me in the end” 😊
 
Covid’s hurting allies and foes
Pompeo pushed us to new lows
Cuts off aid, does not lead,
Leaves innocents in need
How the seeds of resentment do grow.
 
First responders continue to serve
Healthcare workers show us steely nerve
Help from Trump? It’s a Zero.
to each and every hero,
But you’re surely flattening the curve
 
“Of my handling I give me all 10s”
Says Trump just before asking Pence
To reinforce lies
About when’s, where’s and why’s
All through a rose-colored lens
 
For drivers who haul their big trucks
To deliver our goods, this just sucks
If not for state leaders
social distancing heeders
We surely would now all be …. Fu^&*ed
 
While most turn our complete attention
To COVID pandemic prevention
they relax regulations
imperil the nation
And, oh did I forget to mention?
 
Governors stoop to new lows
In Texas, Right to Choose foes,
in a cynical distortion,
do outlaw abortion.
Where they’ll stop nobody knows.
 
The Task Force has not found a way
To lead to a much brighter day.
When we need FDR,
we get William Barr,
and sycophants fighting to stay.
 
All trying to salvage their name.
Duly avoiding all blame.
Refuting the facts,
they don’t have our backs.
If they win, we’ll all be to blame.