{"id":323598,"date":"2020-05-26T06:02:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T20:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=323598"},"modified":"2020-05-26T06:02:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T20:02:52","slug":"c-o-v-i-d-connolly-offers-vivid-image-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/c-o-v-i-d-connolly-offers-vivid-image-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"C.O.V.I.D.: Connolly Offers Vivid Image Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Visions of a Coronavirus<\/strong><br \/>\nA host of RNA (ribonucleic acid) activity scowls\u00a0<br \/>\nin a laboratory\u2019s\u00a0electron\u00a0microscope\u2019s base.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nEvery era every century every decade has its crowns<br \/>\nVikings had helmets that sprouted animal horns<br \/>\nJesus was mocked at death with a crown of thorns<br \/>\nPOTUS 45 spoke, then lied about a variety of porns<br \/>\nVarious crowns have donned the heads of kings<br \/>\nqueens, princes and princesses throughout the world<br \/>\nadorned with jewels, gold, silver and assorted blings<br \/>\nas they sat on thrones with country\u2019s flags unfurled<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe novel coronavirus COVID-19 to today\u2019s date<br \/>\nis sickening and killing thousands around the globe<br \/>\nscientists are studying its novelty and subsequent fate<br \/>\nas international laboratories make a serious probe<br \/>\npeering into electron microscopes they research and<br \/>\nsearch for a vaccine to give the entire world hope.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>COVID 19 &#8211; Scared Into My Wits<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cBut that\u2019s the reality of this. I tell people my job isn\u2019t\u00a0to scare you out of your wits; it\u2019s to scare you\u00a0into\u00a0your wits.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Michael Osterholm, U.S. epidemiologist speaking\u00a0about a possible new wave of coronavirus in the fall.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCOVID-19 is sweeping throughout our nation<br \/>\nmixed messages come from our leaders in D.C.<br \/>\nthey say one thing then don\u2019t follow the situation<br \/>\n45 and V.P. don\u2019t wear masks as all see on TV.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSome states will partially open and some won\u2019t<br \/>\nsocial distancing is practiced in public places<br \/>\nsome restaurants space tables apart some don\u2019t<br \/>\nin grocery stores most wear masks on their faces.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCOVID-19 gives many senior citizen homes a hard hit<br \/>\ndisease, death, case numbers are sky-high in meat plants<br \/>\ncitizens are advised to learn all they can and use their wit<br \/>\nas COVID 19 pandemic does a grievous global dance<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe more I learn about it the virus gives me shivering fits<br \/>\nI\u2019m not scared witless but literally scared\u00a0into\u00a0my wits.<\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\n<em>Joey aka Pepe Batbon is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is a sonnet practitioner who enjoys stargazing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visions of a Coronavirus A host of RNA (ribonucleic acid) activity scowls\u00a0 in a laboratory\u2019s\u00a0electron\u00a0microscope\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":322001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,23672,23673,13843],"class_list":["post-323598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cnmi","tag-lvnv","tag-nola","tag-pepe-batbon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}