Trusted Sources?
by Criminy Pickett
In Science we trust, so do as we say
Masks do no good; but now, wear them today!
And Covid can certainly be spread at the beach
So sequester indoors (Vitamin D3 deplete!)
Hiking on deserted wilderness trails?
The risk is too great, my health you’ll assail!
Better to cower and stay all holed up
(Those overdose deaths, why they’re sure adding up!)
Despite overweight risk, the gyms you must rid
(If they died from hypertension, well at least ‘twasn’t Covid!)
Cough in your elbow, keep those germs well contained!
Such a vaunted and all-so-common refrain
Just seems mighty perplexing and leaves me displeased
You want to touch elbows in the place you just sneezed!
So many paradoxes that just don’t add up
Then there’s the lab-leak potential cover-up
Remarkable you won’t at least further explore
A quite-likely scenario just a little bit more
Perhaps it’s the backstory of grant-money funneled
That has researchers scrambling to plug dikes with word trunnels
And now you label me a skeptic and say
That I should trust leaders that led us astray
Just pointing out the huge credibility gap
Responses and policies were all over the map
Too many bridges in the past year you’ve burned
Don’t you now get it? TRUST has to be earned!
So spare me the guilt and your gaslighting ways
You’ve created the “monster” you now want to slay
With the Feds and Big Tech now squarely in bed
Their sole version of “Truth” they seek to embed
And censor and label as untrustworthy
Any dissenting opinion from adversaries
The biased ‘fact checkers’ and Pinocchio givers
Do George Orwell proud (but give me the shivers!)
Only government sites now deemed ‘trusted source’
The arsonist turned firefighter, irony coarse!