corona july 4th

Moon almost full
Jupiter raising
Saturn in tow
8pm in LA
banging pots
ringing bells 
a minute observed
for essential workers
too busy to notice

sirens wailing
left and right
for C-19 calls
11 million cases globally
nearing 3 million in usa
50K cases daily and raising
american hubris on display
trump lying, "it's being managed"

music blaring
from restaurants
customers laughing
carefree bromancing
as fireworks boom everywhere
sparking lights in the air
from red to blue to white
death is "so cool"
dogs barking all night
pandemonium is
a pandemic celebration

Press News 062420

Our article, "Lucky Streaks Don't Last: Livestock Disease and Human Health" was posted on the American Sociological Association's Section on Animals Blog on June 8, 2020

https://www.asanet.org/asa-communities/sections/sites/animals-and-society/blog#luckysteaksdontlast 

Our "Regs to Nowhere" article was posted on the American Sociological Association's Section on Animals Blog on Covid-19 on June 8, 2020

https://www.asanet.org/asa-communities/sections/sites/animals-and-society/covid-19#regstonowhere 

C-19 reflection 062220

covid-19
four months spreading
a baby pandemic
barely three days old
feels like three years

with 9% positive rate
los angeles is post-pain
post-social distancing
post-worry
post-giving a damn

with 50% republicans
usa has 2.3 million cases
120,000 deaths
not one is sorry
small price to pay
for MAGA

too broken to fix
too broke to try
who lives
who dies