Public Health Officials are being threatened with physical harm and being harassed because people believe a pandemic is a hoax, and public health directives impinge on their freedoms, while they rather believe conspiracies promulgated by those who have made public health a political battleground… God help us as a species…

When Darkness Comes

When darkness comes it will not be night
It will be in a world filled with light
It will be a time when many will know truth
When we will need to hear from our youth
And yet enough will never listen and hear
The science, the data, the truth so clear
They will seek the fatalism of conspiracy stories
With their evil intent, and twittering flurries 
As every con artist knows, it’s the elaborate show
Witch doctors, shamans and village priests know
Just weave a story for the ignorant, to keep them sheltered
From evil they contrive, never mind science and truth altered
No, the darkness does not come in the night of fear
It comes when people hear what they want to hear
It comes when anxiety wins out over thought and reason
It comes when data and science is declared to be treason 
Then in a world full of available and abundant light
Darkness will reign along with the anxieties of night