"Run(Downtrodden)"

I spent all night the other night basically watching videos on Youtube about #coronavirus and I could not sleep. I did it to myself. This 24 hour news cycle took over. I forgot to mediate....

Resist tyranny
It's about that time to hunker down
But they'll whip you into a frenzy
Till you're so run down you can't get back up.

It's gone viral exponentially;
only you're not ready to be merely a specimen
In something so tragic
Would that to wear a mask would not seem over-reactive but more pragmatic

Resist tyranny -
It's at the point where the strength from our numbers
Means nothing.

As we're barraged by dawning alarm
Of fatalities which the teleprompters can never do justice
Spiced by a deadpan delivery from the innocuos fake blonde.

Resist tyranny -
She one of many wanting to shine
In a digital news paradigm
with that mousy voice flatly uttering
that the
"Dying are multiplying."

Her incantation like all the others -
With no discernible gravity.

I wonder if she fears she too would get left behind
or is too vapid to think along the front line.