Diary 39

Sunday, April 26th

The news that the “president” will no longer give his daily briefings because they’re “not worth the effort” is both disappointing and insulting. So we, the public, are not worth talking to?

I’m puzzled by him and Dr. Birx. I cannot imagine what they will gain from all this lying, from all these deaths. What would make anyone do what they’re doing, selling their souls, Faustus-like? Money? Power? Surely they neither of them command any respect any more.

What we are witnessing is a dramatic moral lesson. Their behavior asks us to reflect on our own lives: what would we sell our souls for? Would we do that? I like to think of what the hearts and souls of our heroic medical responders (and others) are demonstrating again and again – that the souls of those who are helping to solve this problem are not for sale.

Let’s learn that lesson. Let’s treasure it. Our souls are not for sale.

[USA: 956,850 confirmed cases: 54,443 deaths]