End the Quarantine! I Have but one Life to give for a Billionaire

His emaciated corpse lay amid the uncut sugarcane until two other men who were barely alive removed him. His burial would simply be his being placed into a hole and covered in earth, but he was being removed because his body impeded the important work of clearing the field of the cash crop that was sugar. He, the boy who had bled to death after having his arm crushed by a grind stone and  another who had simply died of dehydration and exhaustion would be replaced as soon as a trip could be made to Port Au Prince to purchase five more strapping caliban to work the fields. The preceding narrative is fictional, but scenes similar to it played out on a daily basis on Caribbean plantations where slaves were routinely underfed, tortured and shown so little compassion that King Louis XIV of France put the "Code Noir" (black codes) in place to address the brutal conditions to which they were subjected.
         Slaves were expensive, but so was sugar and as The French Colony of Saint Domingue produced 1/3 of the world's sugar and half its coffee slaves were well worth the expense.  A little over 30,000 French controlled nearly 800,000 expendable Africans who would more than likely die before they made it to 25.  Sugar was the most profitable crop in the new world. So profitable in fact that French Planters in the colony which took up half the island of Hispanola in the early 1700's lived as well if not better than royalty. If you were a slave in this world you had one job and that was to work as hard as you could for your master to add to his wealth until you died. Upon your death two or three new slaves would be brought in to replace you. You were nothing.

         April 17, 2020,  the Covid-19 virus has shut down the world's economy.  The Global infection rate has resulted in quarantines in every major city in the world as the United States sees 5% of those contracting the virus dying. Doctors and nurses work feverishly to find a vaccine or  means of treatment as politicians point fingers at one another. The citizens of the world are in a state of fear and uncertainty wondering when all of it will come to an end or perhaps when semblance of normalcy will return. President Donald Trump from his office in Washington DC speaks NOT of Americans dying or scientists working but rather of "reopening the economy".
           It seems as he he's saying to us that the men and women who are connected to ventilators are of no consequence and that those who have died should be the furthest thing from our minds. Men like him whose net worth is a billion or more are losing money so those of us sitting at home fearing our lungs shutting down need to get off our lazy asses and get back to work so that they can become richer.

         The flow of money into their accounts has been interrupted. HOW DARE we put our health above their ledger sheets! The people who pay pittances and cry like babies whenever someone suggest paying their workers more or putting regulations in place to make their work places safer want the quarantines to end not for the greater good, but for the sake of their bank accounts. Slightly more disturbing than that is the fact that there are people living from paycheck to paycheck who DEFEND the right of those to whom they mean nothing who honestly believe the pandemic to be a "hoax" perpetuated by an insidious media who simply want to disparage the billionaires they themselves will never be.
        Those living in opulence and the sycophantic politicians groveling at their feet aren't speaking of vaccines and cures. They want their money and much like the nameless slaves in Saint Domingue's sugar fields we are expected to lay down our lives for them. We are to rise with the sun and wield  our machetes until sundown to make our quotas. Us going back to work risking our lungs shutting down is for the greater good.  Jeff Bezos needs a yacht with room for a helipad. Trump needs another building with his name emblazoned across it. Sheldon Aidelson wants to see if he can literally ski down the mountain of money he possesses and if we have to die so that he may do so, then so be it. Why must people insist on being "unpatriotic" and standing in the way of his dream?
       Much like the slaves living in huts on Saint Domingue, we should be honored to die for such great and noble people. The money saved by NOT paying you a decent salary or making either healthcare or medication accessible to you can be used to buy a sports franchise, pay for a country club membership and maybe just maybe to pay hush money to an adult film star not to speak of a 4 minute sexual liason. People of the world, let us for once stop thinking of ourselves and sacrifice our beings for men and women to whom our names will never be of importance much less known. Yachts must be raced! Bigger fortunes need be amassed! The haves MUST HAVE MORE! Damn it! All they ask is that we realize how insignificant we are and to lay down our lives that they may have more! Let us end this quarantine cure be damned and die for our masters!