Covid-19 (aka The Seventh Prime Corona Rhyme)
Please try to understand the graph
This is not some weird “Libtard” math
Because to reach full potential
Covid likes being exponential
That’s why numbers still quite low
Do not mean we should be slow
To recognise that there’s a threat
It’s not the time to hedge our bet
For even if just one percent
Live no more to pay the rent
That’s many more than just a few
Think of those who grew up with you
If your year numbered more than fifty
Then likely you’ll need to get nifty
To the store that has black ties
And handkerchiefs to dab your eyes
But it does not need to be quite so
Instead of suffering death and woe
Please just follow the advice
Without having to be told twice
Wash your hands and if you cough
Stay at home and do not scoff
Your’s is likely just a cold
But if collectively we scold
Those who choose to isolate
The rest of us from such a fate
That otherwise could visit us
Then I think that we should discuss
The ways in which we can unite
Though we must separate to fight
A foe we have not fought before
Calling names will not help. More
Is required of us, it seems
Than crass politics and memes
Being individual, has of course
Great merits, but can be the source
Of ills, against which we must labour
Collectively but we must favour
The person as opposed to state
But in current circumstance, wait
These are such unusual times
That now you are reading rhymes
In order to try to make sense
Of what to do, but it relents
Because this rhyme must surely end
Like all of us (though we pretend)
Sorry, didn’t mean to end on a downer. But hey ho, let’s put things in perspective. As the old economist once said (can’t remember who) “In the long run we’re all dead”. Probably a slight misquote, but essentially true. However, as stoical as I am, it is incumbent upon us to do our best to look after one another and ourselves! So, listen to the scientists and the medics.