This is how it will all end!
This dry-run at our real-life
dystopian, storybook ending,
the pathetic lack of trust and
frenetic me-first hoarding,
bunker mentality before benevolence
embalmed as social responsibility,
a devious ploy to deliver mind-fucks
in splendid solitary confinement
isolated, hopeless, disorientated.
Like ants that carry poison
back to our communal nest
this touch-screen smart-arsed world
has fatally licked our faces with broadband speed
our very fibre frays and burns-out from within
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© Graham Sherwood 03/2020
grahamrichardsherwood.co.uk 
This shows a more forceful Graham, and expresses a truism, that when the chips are down (apparently) their is a vast gulf between the ethics of social solidarity and self protection. The problem is that there is no reasonableness involved, and much of this behaviour is part of the herd instinct.
You speak for many of us.
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