The cost to the innocent

As the self-inflicted hostage crisis muddles into its 10th week, feckless politicians sprint for tall grass to conceal their incompetence and duplicity. Boarded up parishes next door to financially thriving abortion clinics, conscience-depraved policy wonks ingratiating a holocaust in our own backyard perpetuate a wanton slaughter condoned by a woefully misinformed, demonstrably indifferent populace huddled in masked silence pleading for "permission" to inhale and exhale.

Bar graphs, pie-charts and worthless models explode across our widescreen high-def monitors as we quietly, willfully exterminate twice as many innocent lives as are taken in pandemic hysteria in a totally preventable act of mindless convenience.

Someday soon, we pray, we'll awaken to the fact that we've executed a future Nobel laureate epidemiologist discovering a lifesaving vaccine, a charismatic faith leader awakening the masses to truth and redemption or even a virtuous, selfless elected official capable of thoughtful, principled leadership in crisis driven times such as these.

William G. Parrot

McHenry