What Will Tomorrow Bring

Self quarantine  
Empty shelves  
At local grocery stores  
No solace in  
Sitting on toilet  
Because fear of  
Using up all the toilet paper  
As Americans  
What are we going to do  
So many mixed views  
Highly intelligent doctors  
Not sure of what to do
The other day  
Breaking news on the web
Finally a cure
Take a handheld blow dryer  
Wet your face with a wet rag  
Blow heat up your nose  
Once temperature is over one hundred and thirty degrees  
Virus should be cured  
Yeah....
I won't be trying that
But I know someone will  
The stock market is going down  
Every new headline on the news  
Another hard worker  
Loses their job  
For a couple of weeks  
Or till they don't even know  
The unemployment offices
Is getting overcrowded  
They send people home  
With a website  
Because the total of people waiting inside  
Went over fifty individuals in one place
The government promises stimulus  
But it hasn't passed in the house yet
And what people had planned for their tax return  
That went out the back door  
Or they spent their money on something nice  
Payments  
They knew they could afford  
But now....
Laid off, no job  
Equals another debt added  
To others  
They try to forget  
And people with money  
In fear of banks closing  
And handing out vouchers  
Run to pull their money out
But get turned away
Because banks don't have enough paper currency  
To distribute out  
And sadly  
Loved ones  
Especially the elderly  
Living in nursing homes  
Or stuck in hospitals  
Separated from family  
In fear of  
Catching the virus  
But yet  
In some facilities  
They're housing infected individuals  
Locked in the same place  
Where this grandma or grandpa  
Can't have visits
Because of the fear of  
The virus spreading from the outside  
I just shake my head  
Because that do not make any sense  
And on and on and on  
Something new comes along  
I just take  
One day at a time  
Pray before I go to sleep  
That the coronavirus  
Doesn't catch me  
Because I choose not to wear  
A mask over my mouth  
And rubber gloves  
On my hands