The New Variant
It is with a heavy heart
That I must tell you
That the facts have changed.
We have to act on information as we have it.
Given the early evidence,
The new variant is out of control
And we must change our method of defense.
We cannot continue with Christmas as planned
When the virus changes its method of attack
Because this is now spreading very fast
We need to bring it under control
And this news about the new variant of the virus
And the potential risk it poses
Has been an incredibly difficult end
To, frankly, an awful year
After Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock (December 19 and 20, 2020)
Timing is everything
Observers are worried
This found note is part of a series: In a covidious time
The Spike Protein
Gee kindly Doctor Fauci
Now that you've had your jab
How about advocating
For the rest of us poor slobs?
The pandemic's not near abating
So many lives are being robbed
Relief checks? We're still waiting
It's a matter of survival, send a squad
The new variant's still mutating!
The English Strain
This obsession with naming
When it comes to The English Strain
Feels like casting aspersions
On people now firmly under lockdown
But B.1.1.7 is really quite dry
And, well, Ebola is a great river
While Marburg is a campus town
Remember too, these viral RNA mutations
Have much bigger fish to fry
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