We knew then as we knew now, about the threat of terror and destruction, drifting toward our shores,, one an enemy of flesh and blood, another a small flurry of the virus, too small to see with the human eye, but as dangerous as 747’s crashing to the ground.
We pretended then that cause and effect could not truly intertwine, with enough verbosity, to let alone, bring harm to a nation as powerful as the United States, and destroy towers of Capitalistic pride. And then, we permitted ourselves to ignore the power of science and medicine NOW, pretending that no one person would be so disingenuous, so insidious, so self-absorbed, as to prioritize his Capitalistic self-serving interests over the lives of thousands of deaths and millions of infected.
Nineteen years ago, we have jolted from a slumber a satisfying assumption that no matter what we are the USA, and dominance is a directive from a higher power. Nineteen years to the day, quadrupling the devastation, of something that never should have happened, has come ashore again, and it once again didn’t have to happen and could have been contained.
Since 2001 we tried thoughts and prayers, the ringing of hands, blame, just ignoring facts, and politicians pretending that all that happened was a once in a 100-year storm, only to discover once in a 100 years, is more like a daily occurrence. And it is as if HISTORY, is just another fairy tale, not always providing a happily after, ending!
