The Virus of Greed
Like other people, I am scared of death. I get fear. I am panicking...to a point. (Truth be told, I am a walking neurotic mess even before the virus.) This virus is something that I really never experienced, ever, and probably true for most of us. Though as a teenager in the 1980's, the threat of HIV/AIDS was a reality as I came into sexual maturity, that scared me more than this pandemic. But it didn't stop me from experiencing sex, but this one seems to stop me from life itself. Not life as in death, but life as it was for me a few weeks ago. And I know I am not the only one. But this virus has Americans have showing their ugly heads for who we really are, as I am not afraid of this virus itself, but the greed that seems to threaten us more than ever. Yet, we praise our greed, we defend it. The existence of the virus of greed has been around longer than any other. I guess, I am reminded how the poorest of the poorest might think, b...