How The Quarantine Works...

It's Only To Protect YOU!


Policeman approaching line of protestors…


POLICEMAN “I’m sorry, folks, we’re going to have to ask you folks
to step into that bus…

CITIZEN: Why? I don’t want to go into that bus…

P We’re just afraid for your health, sir. You know there’s a pandemic coming.

C “But it isn’t here yet.

P Nevertheless, if you were outside and it decided to come, where do you think
You would be…

C I’m not worried about it.

P But we are, sir. After all, we have to think about 390 million people.

C What are you going to do with us?

P We’re just going to see that you’re safe.

C But we’re safe right here.

P I’m afraid not. I hope you will come peacefully.

C What if I don’t.

P Well, we will have to hogtie you for your own sake.

C Why would you hogtie me for my own sake.

P So that you don’t have a chance to spread the disease.

C But I don’t have the disease.

P That’s just a matter of speculation isn’t it? I mean how do we know until
We run the tests.

C You’re going to run tests.

P Just enough so that we know.

C Know what?

P That’s confidential at this time…

C So, you’re not only going to take us, you’re going to give us tests.

P Yes, all kinds.

C Why?

P It’s what we do. We have all these people trained in giving tests.

C For what purpose?.

P We can’t tell you.

C But I don’ t need a test.

P How do you know? Do you know what might be lurking in your digestive track
As we speak.

C Okay, so you are going to take me and give me tests. What if you find something
Wrong.

P Well, that would be too bad.

C Why?

P Because you wouldn’t qualify!

C Wouldn’t qualify for what?

P The cure…

C Why not?

P We only have two million doses left.

C And I only need one.

P But we have to give the cure to those who do the tests and the others.

C Who are the others.

P The Inner Circle.

C What Inner Circle.

P You know, the big guys.

C You mean Republicans.

P Well, you didn’t have to be so blunt about it…

C Why not? They’re paying for those two million doses with
My tax dollars…

P That’s why we give the tax-breaks to the top guys.

C What does that have to do with anything?

P We’ll they make business hum because they invest it into the economy.

C That’s what you say! I say we would have been better off giving the break
To the poor folks who can’t afford food or medicine. You know that money’s going to be
Recirculated into the economy.

P We can’t trust the poor. They might find a way to save.

C Yeah! A dollar a month by walking instead of taking the bus…
Where are we going?

P An undisclosed location.

C But what’s the point if you don’t have the medicine to cure me.

P Will be making sure that other people don’t get your germs…

C And what will you and your kind be doing?

P We’ll be doing our jobs…

C Which is?

P To keep you quarantined so we can do what we have to do to protect the American
People…

C How is what your doing to lock me up help you to do your job?

P You won’t be in the way…

C In the way of what?

P What we want to do?

C Which is?

P Protecting everyone by sealing all of you troublemakers off…
While we go about making the changes…

C: What changes?

P Oh, you know, putting up the sound speakers; hanging all of the posters; giving speeches;
Seizing trouble=makers.

C I’m getting a case of deja-vu…Didn’t you say you were going to experiment on me?

P Yes, what’s the big deal?

C Well, another guy did stuff like that about 70 years ago and said it was for our own good. Then we saw all our rights disappear….all for our own good. So, you know, I can’t help but be a little suspicious…

P Not of us, we’re patriots. And all of our brown shirted young men are going out to beat up terrorists…

C How do you know whose a terrorists?

P That’s easy! They’re all different from us…darker, some have slanty eyes…others have hooked noses. Oh, we’ll know them all right.

C So, you’re going to protect me and hunt terrorists to make us all safe.
What if I don’t want to be safe. I have a right.

P No, brother, not under our leaders rules which replaced the Constitution after 9/11. Didn’t you read the fine print.

C No, I didn’t.

P Well, in so many words, it says that as long as we have terrorists to hunt, you have no rights.

C You mean you can just pick me up and put me in a bus and send me away.

P Yeah! You can forget all that habeas corpus stuff or having a meeting with your lawyer.

C And you call this a democracy…

P Of the best kind, brother, because we’re looking after you. Have a happy holiday at the detention center and be sure to remember me to your mom and dad.

C My mon and dad?

P Sure, we know who they are and where they live. Sorry, just tapped into your line a couple of times just to be sure you were on our side. You know, we can’t protect those who aren’t patriots.

C This sounds really scary. If we’re not patriots, you hunt us down; if we are, you put us away so we can’t be any trouble.

P That’s right. Isn’t democracy great?

Les Aaron



Les Aaron