Just because it’s popular
Doesn’t mean it’s true!!
You’ll always find upon the ‘net’
People who’ll agree with you.
A poem written in response to the many who have told me…Covid’s just a bad cold…deal with it!!
Do you remember 2020, late in March, just after tea?
Covid 19 first became NZ’s latest enemy!
Grab your family and some food, and come back home (if you could)
From others we should isolate – still uncertain of our fate.
My house sale was meant to settle, but where would we live now?
Homeless with my mum and dad? I just had to wipe my brow!
Turned out the lawyers were busy still, so settlement was delayed!
Thank God, the “out” I hadn’t planned, but for which I’d surely prayed!
Working from home felt “safe” for some; subsidies for those affected.
Keeping jobs open was the government logic, as always, the “greedy” suspected.
Some businesses jigged their income (subsidies required a loss).
How their falsities affected others – they didn’t give a toss!
Worse still, the public (and bosses too) as we returned to “normality”
Decried “us” choosing to wear our masks, keeping safe, for sake of family.
I worked for a church where gatherings should have been the safest place…
If all obeyed the common rules, and routinely masked their face!
I saw your smirks (behind your smiles), as you walked away,
For my eldery Mum, I stayed masked, a lone soul in our sanctuary!
Masks fought off the virus, many a strand
For over two years…my silent stand.
Until you invited a helper from Perth
To sit in my office (2 weeks on this earth)!
On arrival she was ignorant, so I explained all the “stops”
Covid placed on our freedoms, while driving to the shops!
She used a mask when forced to buy her goods,
But didn’t bother elsewhere when she should!
Her coughing in my office started out little,
When asked to test, she returned “negative”.
It continued for days, and my masked stayed put
Except for my mum’s sandwiches, which we both partook!
Less than 24 hours after she left via air, I was sick as a dog…it was Covid, my fear!
I heard by next day, she too was ill, her Perth church now at risk as well.
Three other colleagues, fell ill from her source…
After meetings that week before she left our shores!
Ignorance is an effective tool, to rid someone of blame.
But really … if you use it, it is to your SHAME!
Covid struck me again last year, but this source I understood.
With No Sick leave, a widowed mum of two, masked as best she could!
It didn’t help my either Mum and or I,
So sick this time, I thought she’d die!
Again, the naysayers told me – “bold”
Covid’s just a nasty cold!
This wasn’t my experience, for two times now
Worse than my Meningitis – in a hospital bed!
But now in 2025, annually vaxed to help keep free
I get mild Covid and understand their complacency!
Covid this year, yes it’s true, a fever for a day or two!
A cold at bay with counter meds, but a cough that’s ripping my chest in two!
Even now, I can see how one might say…it’s just the ‘flu, get on with your day!
But I am so grateful for all JA did, when she harnessed the country, so our health could be free!
If you had all been as sick as the worst cases…sigh,
Our hospitals would have choked, and deaths would have been high!
I am more than happy of the shake-up we got, and a hustle to care for our neighbours in town!
You can’t blame JA for all our woes now,
they’re worldwide problems, regardless of lockdown!
Don’t point your finger, unless you are blameless
Of abusing the system for your own good.
Take a good honest look…were others in your heart,
As you coughed behind corners, not doing what you should!
And remember when in lockdown, were you paid for doing nought?
While others worked harder still, receiving pay much too short!!
And lastly, remember…
Just because it’s popular
Doesn’t mean it’s true!!
You’ll always find upon the ‘net’
People who’ll agree with you.
Anonymous