Alan S. Austin
Arizona Playwright • Writer • Poet
  

DEFENDING THE REPUBLIC (8/12)

It's time people in Arizona understood about this virus and what it is doing to our country. We are not like New Zealand and Australia or these other foreign places in Asia. We believe in our rights. Other countries may have lockdowns and lower rates of infection; they may test everyone and contact trace to try to save people's lives but this is America. We are willing to put our old people in the front line to defend our freedoms. As a Republican and the son of a Republican I stand ready to die for America, to place my body in the path of this virus to defend the Constitution. Like our President who doesn't wear a mask because he doesn't fear to die, we will put our lives on the line. Already, 4,199 of our brothers and sisters in Arizona have gone to their rest in the battle with this Chinese virus. There are more of us. Many more. We don't need testing. Testing just to leads to higher figures that nobody understands. We are Americans. We got to save our country. Get on those beaches, fight damn you, give whatever it takes. This is America.