A Mask for Covid

What are you willing to risk?

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A

Mask covers. But covers what? A

Memory of a life from before…before the pandemic,

Medicine served up a vaccine, but many rejected it even though it was

Material to feeling better…to avoid hospitalization but there was a

Mother who listened to the lies and didn’t get the shot. Her

Marriage was on the rocks because her husband wanted her to be safe. A

Milestone, their 20th anniversary, came as she went to the hospital. The

Music of their lives irreparably severed.

Movement forward was impossible as she laid in the ICU. The

Magic of medicine couldn’t help, and the last

Masterpiece for her, was death.