IF

"If you can keep your head when all  about you
are losing theirs and blaming it on you..."

What happens IF  Covid-19 infects the local jails and correctional officers refuse to show up for work? 

"If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
but make allowance for their doubting too..."

What happens IF  a local Judge gets Covid-19 and people start refusing to come to court?

"If you can wait but not be tired by waiting
or being lied about don't deal in lies.
Or being hated, don't give way to hating
And yet don't look too good or talk too wise"

Three elderly white men with health problems are running for president. What happens IF  one or more of them gets sick? 

If you can dream- but not make dreams your master 
if you can think and not make thoughts your aim
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster 
And treat those two imposters just the same. 
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken 
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools 
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken 
And stoop and build em up with worn out tools."

What happens IF  the virus prevents Americans from going to the polls to vote? 

"If you can make one heap of all your winnings 
And risk it on one turn of pitch and toss 
And lose and start again at your beginnings
and never breath a word of your loss"

What happens IF  the stock market loses another twenty percent of its value and people stop going to movies, restaurants and sporting events? 

"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve you long after they are gone 
And so hold on when there is nothing in you 
Except the will which says to them 'hold on' "

What happens IF a member of your family gets sick? 

"If you can walk with crowds and keep your virtue
Or walk with Kings and not lose the common touch
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you 
If all men count on you, but none too much "

What happens IF because of the economic slowdown your business begins to lose money. How can you keep the doors open until things get back to normal? 

If you can fill the unforgiving minute 
with sixty seconds worth of distance run 
Yours is the Earth and Everything that's in it
And -which is more-you'll be a man my son."

If- By Rudyard Kipling. 
If By Rumpole.