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WotD: On the Warpath
Japanese are peaceful people.
They enjoy calm things such as viewing cherry blossoms or observing pandas.
Things must change.
They, you, me – WE – have to get on the warpath.
When someone is on the warpath, you know they are very angry and getting ready to fight.
We must declare all-out war against COVID-19.
Even though this virus is technically not alive, we have to kill it anyway.
As I write this, the latest daily total for deaths in Italy is 919 – nine hundred and nineteen.
Let that number sink in for a moment – 919.
That’s 919 mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, cousins, uncles, aunts, grandfathers, grandmothers and next-door neighbours G-O-N-E.
I’m not sure about how you feel, but that scares me, and when I become scared, I also become pissed off – I want revenge.
Now, I’m on the warpath.
I guarantee there is not one single coronavirus on my hands.
I’ve also been signing off after every lesson for the past two weeks with “WASH YOUR HANDS!”
I’m sure my students are sick of hearing it.
But the truth is, they are not ill.
They are also on the warpath, and by washing their hands, they are killing the coronavirus.
Anyways, I’ve been paying very close attention to international news from, well, basically everywhere.
The war of words has mostly ended.
People realize we are fighting an uphill battle but not a losing battle.
Governments and health workers around the globe have declared an all-out war on this virus.
Researchers are researching their fingers to the bone, developing a vaccine for this thing.
It’s only a matter of time, but WE have to buy them that time.
We do that by going on the warpath and washing, washing, washing our hands.
Once WE get this done, we can all go back to our daily peaceful lives, but until that happens…
KILL THE VIRUS!
WASH YOUR HANDS!
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