The eerie universal attention on a natural
phenomenon that has caused the global
community, continent by continent to
shut down, isolate, sacrifice time ingenuity
and economies to a single focal point to stem
an unstoppable tide of mass annihilation
where a ferociously reproducing virus
geared to its survival threatens humanity's
has its counterpart in the not-so-distant past
when a single ethnic minority became the
deadly target of the virus of totalitarian
ideology calling for its total destruction
and their plight went unnoticed by a world
too busy for such distractions while the
targets were relentlessly hunted, sequestered
trucked to holding centres until they could
most conveniently be destroyed once
all they possessed had been looted, from
gold and art and finally skin and hair in a
mobilization of conflict-useful confiscation
that began in slave labour and ended in
malnutrition, disease and death. Jews
likened to pathogens that must be destroyed
lest their presence contaminate global society
terrorized and dehumanized, no defences
to halt their organized obliteration. Now an
unleashed pestilence grinds its way through
continent after continent eliciting desperate
fear and the entire world takes notice urgently
searching science for a cure to rescue humanity
from the scourge it obliviously released.
Humanity in nature's own relentless cross
hairs, deadly variations on a dread theme.
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