The Quarantine Chronicles, Day 16

DAY 16: The nation entering lockdown

but they'd already paid

for the skiing vacation

they had to take, to steal away

sip champagne, lifestyles of rich

famous doctors, grunts in scrubs
immune perhaps, special

-- ah, no

they came home, back to the salt mines,

the sickbays, wards, walking

the wards, checking clipboards and vitals

for days after days
until their own symptoms

developed.

Our town nearly free of the

novel virus, now these country-clubbers

have infected hundreds

two hospitals and a rest home

in which all eighty guests

are positive for COVID-19, as well as 

the twelve people who work there --

no one can leave except in

a coffin and they shoot videos

on their phones of each other

crying and calling for help

-- too late.

Skiing, I'm sure, is fun

I've never been

it's an activity for the well-to-do

who got their share

protect their share

don't share, yet

do share.