by Pa Rock
Poetry Appreciator
Early yesterday morning it was revealed that the Trump administration had been hiding a public health recommendation of the Center for Disease Control. The CDC had issued guidelines to help fight the spread of the Coronavirus, but the Trump gang, in their infinite wisdom, had deleted one specific guideline - the one which said senior citizens and others with fragile health should not fly on commercial airliners. In what looked like a brazen move to protect the profits of the airline industry, thousands and thousands of elderly travelers were put at risk.
Later yesterday Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the US Institute on Allergies and Infectious Diseases also recommended that senior citizens not travel aboard cruise ships. Dr. Fauci made statement publicly, thus denying the Trump administration the opportunity to distort or bury it.
As one who has been on several cruises, I can attest to the fact that many, many elderly folks enjoy that mode of travel and vacation. Cruises have also become a popular form of vacation with younger people traveling on limited incomes as well as with some families. But if the seniors quit sailing, the industry will suffer major financial setbacks.
The Trump administration is rushing to prepare an aid package (tax cuts) for American businesses that are being hurt by the Coronavirus outbreak, but Democrats in Congress say this time a business bailout must also do something directly for workers - like paid emergency sick leave.
(Generally Republicans see aid to businesses as stimulating the economy and aid to workers as socialism.)
But as of this morning and at this hour, important people in our government are suggesting that old folks stay off of cruise ships as a matter of health and survival. For those who refuse to let the government push them around - even when it is in their own best interest - and insist on cruising anyway, the following few lines are for you. They stress the importance of actually living life. The poet is unknown.
The Ship that Sails
by Anonymous
I'd rather be the ship that sails
And rides the billows wild and free;
Than to be the ship that always fails
To leave the port and go to sea.
I'd rather feel the sting of strife,
Where gales are born and tempests roar;
Than to settle down to useless life
And rot in the dry dock on the shore.
I'd rather fight some mighty wave
With honor in supreme command;
And fill at last a well-earned grave,
Than die in ease upon the sand.
I'd rather drive where sea storms blow,
And be the ship that always failed
To make ports where it would go,
Than to be the ship that never sailed.
Poetry Appreciator
Early yesterday morning it was revealed that the Trump administration had been hiding a public health recommendation of the Center for Disease Control. The CDC had issued guidelines to help fight the spread of the Coronavirus, but the Trump gang, in their infinite wisdom, had deleted one specific guideline - the one which said senior citizens and others with fragile health should not fly on commercial airliners. In what looked like a brazen move to protect the profits of the airline industry, thousands and thousands of elderly travelers were put at risk.
Later yesterday Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the US Institute on Allergies and Infectious Diseases also recommended that senior citizens not travel aboard cruise ships. Dr. Fauci made statement publicly, thus denying the Trump administration the opportunity to distort or bury it.
As one who has been on several cruises, I can attest to the fact that many, many elderly folks enjoy that mode of travel and vacation. Cruises have also become a popular form of vacation with younger people traveling on limited incomes as well as with some families. But if the seniors quit sailing, the industry will suffer major financial setbacks.
The Trump administration is rushing to prepare an aid package (tax cuts) for American businesses that are being hurt by the Coronavirus outbreak, but Democrats in Congress say this time a business bailout must also do something directly for workers - like paid emergency sick leave.
(Generally Republicans see aid to businesses as stimulating the economy and aid to workers as socialism.)
But as of this morning and at this hour, important people in our government are suggesting that old folks stay off of cruise ships as a matter of health and survival. For those who refuse to let the government push them around - even when it is in their own best interest - and insist on cruising anyway, the following few lines are for you. They stress the importance of actually living life. The poet is unknown.
The Ship that Sails
by Anonymous
I'd rather be the ship that sails
And rides the billows wild and free;
Than to be the ship that always fails
To leave the port and go to sea.
I'd rather feel the sting of strife,
Where gales are born and tempests roar;
Than to settle down to useless life
And rot in the dry dock on the shore.
I'd rather fight some mighty wave
With honor in supreme command;
And fill at last a well-earned grave,
Than die in ease upon the sand.
I'd rather drive where sea storms blow,
And be the ship that always failed
To make ports where it would go,
Than to be the ship that never sailed.
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