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Dear COVID-19: The Lockdown—Love Affair with Death
Originally posted on April 21, 2020
By Marivel Guzman
Updated April 25, 2025
I don’t love you,
not like my friends and followers do.
They dig through Google and Facebook
for every freshly minted death count,
adoring the adrenaline rush
when your numbers spike to a new day’s high.
They’re in love with death’s new attire,
searching day and night for proof—
the nurse, the taxi driver, the maid,
the doctor, the neighbor, the friend of a friend,
the niece of their uncle’s ex-wife’s son-in-law
who—according to the MSM—died of you.
Your lovers’ opinions are as loud as mine,
but my data analysis?
Well, it carries a sharper edge—
in my humble, unapologetic opinion.
Not even in my wildest dreams
did I imagine you’d bulldoze
the path of free thinkers in three months flat.
Not even Adelson’s millions
could shake us from standing with Palestine,
from challenging headline-charged wars.
But you?
You slithered through subconscious fears,
and in mere months,
sent the rebels into self-imposed exile.
They left their cafés,
the warmth of real conversations,
trading them in for government stimulus checks
and digital chains.
They swapped social justice
for feverish browsing of your every move.
Once fearless critics of the MSM,
they now quote it like gospel:
“X, Y, Z who didn’t believe in you—
died today!”
(happy face emoji, of course).
Zealously, they patrol Facebook,
chasing dissenters with virtual pitchforks:
“If you think COVID-19 is a hoax,
please delete me or unfollow,”
one lover proudly typed.
Dear COVID-19,
I still don’t love you.
I never did.
And I stand my ground
against you and your army
of fear-vaccinated souls.
I’ll stick to flu advice, thanks—
cover your mouth when you cough,
care for the elderly;
they are fragile and need love, not exile.
Fight the mandates
that condemned them to die alone.
Rest in peace—
Yellow Vests,
Hong Kong protesters,
Amazon workers,
water protectors,
beggars,
the homeless,
the elderly,
the poor,
pensions,
free expression,
and friendship.
🧪 UPDATE: The Fauci Files – A Comedy of Errors
🎭 “I Didn’t Mandate Anything”
In a recent congressional hearing, Dr. Anthony Fauci clarified that he never mandated masks or social distancing; he merely offered suggestions. As he put it, “I didn’t recommend anything. I just suggested it.”
📏 The Six-Foot Rule: A Magical Appearance
Dr. Fauci admitted that the six-foot social distancing guideline “sort of just appeared” and was “likely not based on scientific data.”
🔬 Lab Leak Theory: Not So Far-Fetched
Contrary to earlier dismissals, Dr. Fauci acknowledged that the lab leak hypothesis is “not a conspiracy theory.”
💰 Funding Controversies
Documents have surfaced indicating that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded research in Wuhan that enhanced a bat coronavirus’s infectivity in humans. This contradicts earlier statements denying such funding.
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Marivel Guzman is passionate about investigative reporting and photography. She loves to dig for information and get to the bottom of what is really going on. Her work often focuses on following the money and exposing how public funds are allocated—or misused.
Her bylines include Lariat News, Orange Coast Report, and The State Hornet. She has also worked remotely as Proof Editor for the Baluchistan Red Crescent quarterly magazine and volunteers as a photographer for UNRWA events.
She has been the voice behind a political blog for more than a decade, covering both domestic and international stories that mainstream outlets often ignore.
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