Half a million Americans dead.
The senses can hardly feel.
It’s barely been a calendar year…
the number doesn’t seem real.
Tag: covid
498,201 in Year One
Half a million people have died.
The death toll makes us numb.
The Virus clock keeps ticking
with more Death still to come.
484,000 Americans Dead
The relentless death toll goes on up
as countless lives are lost.
The grim statistics don’t reveal
the truth of the human cost.
11 Percent Vaccinated
More people are getting the COVID vaccine.
The numbers are inching higher.
With each percentage point we reach,
life feels just a little less dire.
Aging in the Time of COVID
We wash our hands and we wear a mask.
We keep our Social Distance.
We do all the things
we know we should
at the CDC’s insistence.
We stay alive. We try to survive.
We keep our COVID bubble.
We live a simple lifestyle as
we stay out of COVID trouble.
The days turned in to weeks and months.
The months became a year.
The vaccines bring a ray of hope.
Still we live in COVID fear.
How many people died?
How many people died last night?
How many will die today?
How many will die tomorrow
in this grim, dark COVID day?
The Herald: “almost no flu in Snohomish County”
One good thing about the Virus.
It’s not spreading Winter Flu.
All that washing hands and distance –
they are Flu-Aversive, too!
Captive of the Virus
I’m a captive of the Virus.
I’m confined to house and home.
I stay close to my front doorstep
and my feet no longer roam.
Lunch and coffee with my friends
are just a distant memory.
And there is no change a’ coming
for as far as I can see.
But I’m busy every minute.
I am always working hard.
There’s no end to boring housework.
There’s always work out in the yard.
January, 2021 “Worst Month”
The dreadful death toll rises –
each month sadder than the last.
Will we find strength to sustain us
till this tragedy has passed?
Rampant Virus Spread
Anyone who gets a Shot
Anywhere
helps the Population
Everywhere.
Living the Aging Life 