Remember how it all started? First there was bat soup, then we were locked down, and worse. Relive that dark era through a clever spoken word performance by Kim Leonoudakis, It’s Just to Keep Everyone Safe. We will never forget.
Transcript
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just two weeks to flatten to curve
It’s just 15 days to slow the spread
It’s just a shut down (we mean lockdown)
It’s just a mask
It’s just that there is a mask mandate (what a minute, isn’t that two men on a date)
It’s just not a big deal to wear a mask
It’s just that you’re wearing it for someone else
It’s just that we are all in this together
It’s just that there is a mask law – NOT TRUE
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just our store policy (we mean coercion)
It’s just that you’re doing your part
It’s just those anti-maskers fault
It’s just that those anti-maskers are murdering people
It’s just if everyone wore a mask this would be over (just kidding, it will never be over)
It’s just to keep everyone safe (we mean control you and test your compliance)
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just social distancing (we mean unsocial)
It’s just to keep grandma safe
It’s just a face shield but you still have to wear a mask
It’s just temporary (until we say it isn’t)
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just working from home
It’s just a few layoffs
It’s just non-essential businesses
It’s just a few small business that have closed
It’s just for your safety
It’s just to protect everyone
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just a curfew (we’re your parents and we can tell you what to do)
It’s just a medical test to keep employees safe (we mean nasal rape)
It’s just online learning for a semester or two
It’s just so kids can go back to school
It’s just a test
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just one lonely Thanksgiving, Christmas or birthday or two or however many we say
It’s just so you don’t kill grandma
It’s just canceling a baby shower
It’s just a wedding so you can miss it
It’s just a virtual graduation
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just that you can’t visit your family in a hospital or nursing home right now (we mean medical prison)
It’s just to keep your family members safe (we mean torture and kill them)
It’s just a nasal swab (that’s not even testing for a virus)
It’s just our policy (we mean coercion)
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just a touch-less payment system
It’s just for your safety
It’s just that cash is dirty
It’s just one stimulus check
It’s just 3 stimulus checks
It’s just half of all small businesses are gone now
It’s just an eviction moratorium (we mean land grab)
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just two injections (even though your punch card has 4 lines)
It’s just that vaccines are safe and effective
It’s just science, trust the science
It’s just that we are following the science
It’s just that the anti-vaxxers can’t understand science
It’s just that they are anti-science
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just a few injections
It’s just to prevent the spread
It’s just so you won’t die
It’s just so you can’t spread it
It’s just the pandemic of the unvaccinated
It’s just that you are not safe around the unvaccinated
It’s just that those anti-vaxxers are murdering people
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just to visit someone in a hospital, nursing home or wherever we say
It’s just to keep your job
It’s just so you can travel
It’s just to prevent you from dying (although IT can kill you)
It’s just to keep others safe
It’s just an app to keep you safe so we can notify you of outbreaks
It’s just to keep everyone safe (we really mean – so we can track all your movements)
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just to see a concert, eat in a restaurant, go to a movie or sporting event
It’s just a few rare side effects (we mean direct effects that can debilitate you)
It’s just a few deaths
It’s just that IT saves lives
It’s just one booster
It’s just two boosters
It’s just three, four, five, six, seven, eight boosters (or however many we say)
It’s just a few more deaths (we mean millions)
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just a new variant (we mean fake scariant)
It’s just two masks
It’s just to get it under control
It’s just that the cases are up
It’s just those anti-vaxxers fault
It’s just that your kids can kill grandma
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just a new disease called turbo cancer (we have no idea what caused that)
It’s just a few heart problems in kids (and millions of others)
It’s just a few miscarriages and stillbirths (you can keep trying)
It’s just infertility
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just a little card so you can participate in society and be free
It’s just another lockdown
It’s just for everyone’s safety
It’s just for convenience
It’s just giving up a few of your freedoms (screw your freedoms)
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just if you want rights and privileges in this county
It’s just a social credit score (we mean communism)
It’s just a central bank digital currency (we mean tracking and tracing of everything you do)
It’s just a vaccine passport
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just a digital ID (we mean digital prison)
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just for convenience
It’s just a quick picture of you when you travel
It’s just facial recognition so we can confirm who you are
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just to access the internet
It’s just so you can have a bank account
It’s just so you can have a job
It’s just so you can enter the store and buy food
It’s just so you can provide for your family
It’s just so we don’t take your kids away from you
It’s just so we can track your health
It’s just because we care about your health
It’s just to keep everyone safe
It’s just so we can get back to normal
It’s just so we can get back to normal
It’s just so we can get back to normal
It’s just to keep everyone safe
Stay safe!
Kim Leonoudakis is a beloved laughter yoga instructor and Free Now Foundation Supporter. She added creatively to this list that was started by someone during lockdowns. Posted by Alix Mayer.
That’s it in a nutshell! I appreciate how this also communicates an underlying message of how exhausting it all is. It’s as if it just never ends: the power structure just keeps pushing and pushing and pushing.