{"id":22819,"date":"2020-07-24T09:05:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T08:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=22819"},"modified":"2020-07-20T16:34:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T15:34:07","slug":"contagion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=22819","title":{"rendered":"Contagion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been the lucky generations.<\/p>\n<p>Hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t felt carpet bombings devastations.<\/p>\n<p>Escaped 1930s style depressions.<\/p>\n<p>It couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t last. Fortune no longer smiled upon us.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been hit by the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>At our peril we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d ignored the periphery<\/p>\n<p>Discovered we aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t in charge of our destiny.<\/p>\n<p>Too foolish not to follow countries whose citizens<\/p>\n<p>had suffered from contagious diseases.<\/p>\n<p>We heard about herd immunity.<\/p>\n<p>So began a litany of failure putting us in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>A prime minister, clapping NHS workers, struck down.<\/p>\n<p>Even locked-down was the heir to the crown.<\/p>\n<p>But we weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t all in it together.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunes made. Big tech a clear pandemic winner.<\/p>\n<p>We worked from our living room.<\/p>\n<p>Held virtual meetings courtesy of zoom.<\/p>\n<p>Shelf stackers kept us fed. Refuse collectors<\/p>\n<p>emptied the bins and bus drivers drove essential workers.<\/p>\n<p>Under paid and under-valued bore the brunt of pain.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbourhoods wrapped in shrouds of pitiless contagion.<\/p>\n<p>Come winter hanging over us the sword of Damocles.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been brought low by the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Joy Johnson, Unite political department <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At our peril we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d ignored the periphery<\/p>\n<p>Discovered we aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t in charge of our destiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,1308],"tags":[1295],"wps_subtitle":"Joy Johnson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest poem on the effects of Covid-19","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22821,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22819\/revisions\/22821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}