Who Are Our Heroes?
Created | Updated Apr 5, 2021
Who Are Our Heroes?
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| This is a time when ghosts might walk. Families weep for loved ones, dying alone in care homes. Citizens sentenced to house arrest peer from windows at empty streets. Shoppers walk masked in fear of an invisible killer among them. Who are our heroes in time of need? Not politicians mouthing platitudes, letting decisions fall through fingers. Not captains of industry, pocketing millions, while sacking their workers. Not the royals, shamed by a taint of racism and a prince too fond of girls. Today our heroes are scientists in lab coats testing chemicals; doctors and nurses, shrouded in masks and visors like spacemen, bending over the sick and dying; volunteers delivering parcels to needy families, answering phone calls from the desperate. These are our heroes in the time of Covid. |
